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                           Phrase(s): imprint something on(to) something  1. to print something onto something.  •  We imprinted your name onto your stationery and your business cards.  •  Please imprint my initials on this label. 2. and imprint something into something to record something firmly in the memory of someone.  •  The severe accident imprinted a sense of fear onto Lucy’s mind.  •  Imprint the numbers into your brain and never forget them! 3. and imprint something into something to make a permanent record of something in an animal’s brain. (As with newly hatched fowl, which imprint the image of the first moving creature they see into their brains.)  •  The sight of its mother imprinted itself on the little gosling’s brain.  •  Nature imprints this information into the bird’s memory.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs