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Noun: impingement
  1. Influencing strongly
    "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture"
    - encroachment, impact
     
  2. A sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something
    - impaction

Derived forms: impingements

See also: impinge

Type of: crash, influence, smash

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