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einprägen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • emblazon verb To adorn with prominent markings.
  • etch verb To cut a design or pattern into a hard surface using acid, a needle, or another sharp tool.
  • imprint noun A mark left by pressing something onto a surface, or a lasting effect on someone's mind or life.
  • memorize verb To learn something so thoroughly that you can recall it exactly, without needing to check.

Senses

einprägen is used for these senses in English:

  • emblazon (transitive) To inscribe upon.
  • etch To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
  • imprint To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
  • memorize To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.

emblazon — full definition

  1. verb To adorn with prominent markings.
  2. verb To inscribe upon.
  3. verb To draw (a coat of arms); depict a heraldic device on something.
  4. verb To celebrate or extol as with deeds or merit.

etch — full definition

  1. verb To cut a design or pattern into a hard surface using acid, a needle, or another sharp tool.
  2. verb To fix something firmly and permanently in someone's memory.

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