impacting

Verb

impact (third-person singular simple present impacts, present participle impacting, simple past and past participle impacted)

1. (transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
   • When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
2. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
   • The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.
3. (figuratively, proscribed, transitive) To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
   • I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
4. (rare, transitive) To stamp or impress onto something.
   • Ideas impacted on the mind.

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