impinging
Making an impact
Impinging is the present participle of impinge, meaning to encroach or have an effect on something.
Rights or freedoms are impinged upon when restricted: The new law risks impinging on free speech.
Light or sound waves impinge on surfaces when they strike them.
The word carries a sense of unwanted contact or intrusion: Work kept impinging on his personal life.
Gradually intruding on territory
- infringingBreaching established limits
- trespassingUnauthorized presence on property
- intrudingEntering without welcome
- invadingEntering by force
overstepping · encroachment · infringement · intrusion · violation · breach · transgression · penetration
Emotionally moving
- influencingAltering someone's thinking
- impactingProducing an effect on
- bearing uponHaving relevance to
- touchingEvoking gentle emotion
shaping · altering · modifying · conditioning · determining · constraining · limiting · restricting
Noticeably impressive
- hittingMaking forceful contact
- collidingStriking upon contact
- bumpingLight repeated collision
- contactingInitiating communication with
touching · grazing · glancing · brushing · bouncing · rebounding · ricocheting · deflecting
Entering without welcome
- interferingIntruding in others' affairs
- meddlingIntrusive interference in others' concerns
- interruptingBreaking in mid-speech
- disturbingCausing mental unease
disrupting · obtruding · imposing · overreaching · crossing boundaries · unwelcome · uninvited · presumptuous
encroaching
Gradually intruding on territory
- infringingBreaching established limits
- trespassingUnauthorized presence on property
- intrudingEntering without welcome
invading · overstepping · encroachment · infringement · intrusion · violation · breach · transgression · penetration · overreach
affecting
Emotionally moving
- influencingAltering someone's thinking
- impactingProducing an effect on
- bearing uponHaving relevance to
touching · shaping · altering · modifying · conditioning · determining · constraining · limiting · restricting · pressing on
striking
Noticeably impressive
contacting · touching · grazing · glancing · brushing · bouncing · rebounding · ricocheting · deflecting · knocking
intruding
Entering without welcome
- interferingIntruding in others' affairs
- meddlingIntrusive interference in others' concerns
- interruptingBreaking in mid-speech
disturbing · disrupting · obtruding · imposing · overreaching · crossing boundaries · unwelcome · uninvited · presumptuous · officious
impingingmissing
Not present, whereabouts unknown
avoiding · withdrawing · retreating · bypassing · skirting
impingingrespecting
About; on the topic
honoring · observing · deferring · keeping distance · abstaining
impingingleaving alone
Ceasing to disturb
uninvolved · detached · ignoring · disengaged · disregarding
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