emprint
emprint is the obsolete form of imprint.
Meaning of imprint
Verb
imprint (third-person singular simple present imprints, present participle imprinting, simple past and past participle imprinted)
- To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
- For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
- To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
- Baby birds are known for a propensity to imprint; they tend to imprint on whichever creatures they perceive to be their parents — including humans doing wildlife rescue!
- To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
Forms of emprint
| third-person singular present | emprints |
|---|---|
| present participle | emprinting |
| past participle | emprinted |
| past | emprinted |
Questions about emprint
- What is emprint the obsolete form of?
- Emprint is the obsolete form of imprint.
Words near emprint in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: emprint (page history and authors); imprint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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