Synonyms of the word

impingement

• n. The act of impinging.

crash

• n. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
• n. A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally…
• n. A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
• n. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
• n. A comedown of a drug.
• n. A group of rhinoceroses.
• n. dysphoria.
• adj. quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
• v. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
• v. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
• v. (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation, usually with unfavorable…
• v. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources…
• v. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
• v. (slang) To give, as a favor.
• v. (slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
• v. (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
• v. (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
• v. (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after…
• v. (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
• n. (fibre) Plain linen.

encroachment

• n. An entry into a place or area that was previously uncommon; an advance beyond former borders; intrusion;…
• n. An intrusion upon another's possessions or rights; infringement.
• n. That which is gained by such unlawful intrusion.
• n. (law) An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.

impact

• n. The striking of one body against another; collision.
• n. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
• n. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
• n. A significant or strong influence; an effect.
• v. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
• v. (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
• v. (transitive) To collide or strike.

impaction

• n. compression; the packing together of loose matter.
• n. something packed together tightly; a mass of densely-packed matter.
• n. (medicine) a solid, immobile bulk of stool.
• n. (dentistry) Failure of a tooth to erupt into the dental arch, because of adjacent teeth, dense overlying…

influence

• n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
• n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
• n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
• n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
• n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
• n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
• v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
• v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

smash

• n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
• n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
• n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
• v. To break (something brittle) violently.
• v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
• v. To hit extremely hard.
• v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
• v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.