All 3 Uses of
impact
in
The Hunger Games
- It was as if the impact had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay there struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything.
p. 21.1 *impact = collision
- The impact with the hard-packed earth of the plain knocks the wind out of me.
p. 222.0
- We hear him hit, the air leaving his body on impact, and then the mutts attack him.
p. 337.0
Definitions:
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(1)
(impact as in: her impact on foreign policy) influence or effect
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(2)
(impact as in: at the moment of impact) collision (when two objects collide or crash)
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, impact can refer to pressure as when describing a tooth impacted against another tooth or an impact ulcer that appears on the skin from something that presses on it.