What is another word for impinged upon?

Pronunciation: [ɪmpˈɪnd͡ʒd əpˌɒn] (IPA)

When something is said to have impinged upon something else, it means that the first thing has encroached or intruded on the space of the second. Synonyms for this phrase include 'trespassed upon', 'invaded', 'infringed', 'violated', 'usurped', 'imposed on', 'encroached', 'interfered with', 'obstructed', and 'intervened'. Each of these words highlights the idea of one thing encroaching on the space or rights of another. Whether it be physical space, personal boundaries, or legal rights, these synonyms all convey the idea of an unwelcome imposition of some kind.

What are the hypernyms for Impinged upon?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for impinged upon?

The term 'impinged upon' suggests an invasion or encroachment upon something or someone's space, rights, or freedom. A few antonyms of 'impinged upon' are 'respected,' 'honored,' 'protected,' 'guarded,' 'cherished,' and 'preserved.' To respect is to acknowledge someone's worth or to uphold their dignity. To honor is to recognize someone's achievements or contributions. To protect is to defend or safeguard someone or something from harm or danger. To guard is to watch over and take care of. To cherish is to hold dear and treasure. To preserve is to safeguard something from damage or decay. These words convey a sense of positivity, care, and concern towards something or someone, unlike 'impinged upon,' which carries a negative connotation of infringement or intrusion.

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Famous quotes with Impinged upon

  • Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.
    Karen Armstrong
  • I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous—that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't. It makes no difference how well they mean or how cordial they are—they simply get on my nerves unless they chance to represent a peculiarly similar combination of tastes, experiences, and heritages; as, for instance, Belknap chances to do . . . Therefore it may be taken as axiomatic that the people of a place matter absolutely nothing to me except as components of the general landscape and scenery. Let me have normal American faces in the streets to give the aspect of home and a white man's country, and I ask no more of featherless bipeds. My life lies not among but among —my local affections are not personal, but topographical and architectural. No one in Providence—family aside—has any especial bond of interest with me, but for that matter no one in Cambridge or anywhere else has, either. The question is that of which roofs and chimneys and doorways and trees and street vistas I love the best; which hills and woods, which roads and meadows, which farmhouses and views of distant white steeples in green valleys. I am always an outsider—to all scenes and all people—but outsiders have their sentimental preferences in visual environment. I will be dogmatic only to the extent of saying that it is I have—in some form or other. Providence is part of me—I Providence—but as I review the impressions which have impinged upon me since birth, I think the greatest single emotion—and the most permanent one as concerns consequences to my inner life and imagination—I have ever experienced was my first sight of in the golden glamour of late afternoon under the snow on December 17, 1922. That thrill has lasted as nothing else has—a visible climax and symbol of the lifelong mysterious tie which binds my soul to ancient things and ancient places.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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