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Impacted

To collide or strike, the act of impinging.

📖 Definitions of "Impacted"

verb

1
To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
"When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends."
2
To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
"The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do."
3
To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
"I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule."
4
To stamp or impress onto something.
"Ideas impacted on the mind."

adjective

1
Having undergone an impact.
2
Of a tooth, subject to dental impaction.
"Being the last teeth to erupt in the oral cavity, many wisdom teeth are impacted."
3
Having lost property revenue due to Federal presence, such that it may receive impact aid.

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
compactnoun	Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
wedged	(computing, slang) Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
wedgedverb	(computing, slang) Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.
compactverb	(intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
hitverb	(heading, physical) To strike.
exploded	Having been subjected to an explosion; blown up.
crushed	Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
hampered	Impeded or encumbered, as if chained or fettered.
encumbered	Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
beaten	Defeated.
besetverb	(transitive, sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
damagedverb	That has suffered damage.
devastated	Extremely upset and shocked.
disrupted	Subject to disruption.
hurtverb	(transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
passed	That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.
involved	Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
plagued	Constantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something).
shotverb	(transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
covered	Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).
afflictedverb	Suffering from an affliction, or suffering from pain, distress or disability.
degraded	Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.