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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