Crossword clues for impacted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impacted \Im*pact"ed\, a.
Driven together or close.
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Specifically: (Dentistry) Grown in an abnormal direction so that it is wedged against another tooth and cannot erupt normally; -- of teeth, especially the third molar; as, to extract an impacted third molar.
Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.
Impact \Im*pact"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Impacting.] [L. impactus, p. p. of impingere to push, strike against. See Impinge.]
To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
--Woodward.To affect or influence, especially in a significant or undesirable manner; as, budget cuts impacted the entire research program; the fish populations were adversely impacted by pollution.
To collide forcefully with; to strike.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: impact)
WordNet
adj. wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn: wedged]
Usage examples of "impacted".
The bubbler ripped loose, hurtled away, and impacted on the roof of a monastery half a mile downrange.
The one to the chromed skull impacted solidly, leaving a neat circular hole in the forehead, an inch from the glowing eyes.
Without asking her permission, he jotted down her description of the Change War and her questions on a tablet using an impacted system of diacritical marks.
The second gauss slug impacted over a wheel, smashing it back into the drivetrain and fouling the right-side independent drive mechanism.
He had hit the orca just forward of the dorsal fin with both feet, but they had both immediately slid out from under him on the slick skin of the beast and he had impacted on his hip and side, flipping sideways on the right side of the orca, entering the water with a tremendous splash.
Jock had impacted roots and the tooth should have been sawn in half and then taken out a bit at a time.
The fish could be easily felt impacted in the tissues, but, after swallowing much water and vinegar, together with other efforts at extraction, the fins were loosened--about twenty-four hours after the accident.
Rocks and boulders smashed into bartizan and tower, impacted wall, or arced over into the courtyard, before fire silenced catapult and trebuchet.
They were no more than shaped steel rods, dead rounds carrying no explosives, but they impacted with the momentum of meteoroids, of flying bulldozers.
Fatal peritonitis ensued and the spoon was found impacted in the last acute turn of the duodenum.
Our work on our watersheds with seeds, permaculture and natural plants could enable us to be of some assistance to the human family and to the earth, as the ecosystems are impacted.
The speaker suggested that part of the mucous membrane of the mouth with its tooth-germ had become impacted between the superior and premaxillary bones and thus cut off from the cavity of the mouth.
Cazenave of Bordeaux relates a most marvelous case in which a primipara suffered in labor from an impacted head.
North Shore suburbs and planned communities and people leaving their front doors agape in their rush to get out and mill around and spectate at the circle of impacted waste drawing sober and studious crowds, milling in rings around the impact, earnestly comparing mental notes on just what it is they all see.
New Jersey that a prospective buyer had to be notified if a house was a stigmatized property, meaning one that might be impacted by a factor that, on a psychological level, could cause apprehension or fears.