impinging

The word “impinging” has 3 syllables: im-pin-ging

It's pronounced as /ɪmˈpɪn.dʒɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for impinging?

In the thesaurus, “impinging” has 38 synonyms and 2 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for impinging along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for impinging

  • banging
  • bashing
  • bouncing
  • brushing
  • bulldozing
  • bumping
  • caroming
  • clunking
  • colliding
  • contacting
  • crashing
  • glancing
  • grazing
  • hitting
  • impacting
  • jostling
  • kissing
  • knocking
  • landing
  • muscling
  • nudging
  • pressing
  • pushing
  • ramming
  • rebounding
  • ricocheting
  • ricochetting
  • scraping
  • shaving
  • skimming
  • skipping
  • slamming
  • smashing
  • striking
  • sweeping
  • swiping
  • thudding
  • touching

Antonyms for impinging

  • missing
  • skirting

Meanings of impinging

  • verb
    1. To make a physical impact on.
    2. To interfere with.
    3. To have an effect upon, especially a negative one.

Example Sentences

  • The heavy workload is impinging on my personal life.
  • Noise from the party next door kept impinging on my sleep.
  • The government was criticized for impinging on individual freedoms.
  • The shadows were impinging across the narrow alley.
  • Stress from work is impinging on his health.

On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to impinging, such as: banging, bashing, bouncing, brushing, bulldozing, bumping, caroming.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

ramming

  • accelerating
  • arrowing
  • banging
  • barreling
  • barrelling
  • bashing
  • beating it
  • beelining
  • beetling
  • belting
  • blasting
  • blazing
  • blowing
  • bolting
  • bombing
  • bouncing
  • bowling
  • breezing
  • brushing
  • bulldozing
  • bumping
  • bundling
  • bustling
  • buzzing
  • cannonballing
  • careening
  • careering
  • caroming
  • catching up
  • chasing
  • clunking
  • colliding
  • contacting
  • coursing
  • cramming
  • crashing
  • crowding
  • crushing
  • darting
  • dashing
  • driving
  • fast-forwarding
  • filling
  • flitting
  • flying
  • galloping
  • getting a move on
  • glancing
  • grazing
  • haring
  • hastening
  • heaping
  • hieing
  • highballing
  • hitting
  • humping
  • hurling
  • hurrying
  • hurtling
  • hustling
  • hying
  • impacting
  • impinging
  • jam-packing
  • jamming
  • jetting
  • jogging
  • jostling
  • jumping
  • kissing
  • knocking
  • landing
  • loading
  • making tracks
  • motoring
  • muscling
  • nipping
  • nudging
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overtaking
  • packing
  • pelting
  • pressing
  • pushing
  • quickening
  • racing
  • rebounding
  • ricocheting
  • ricochetting
  • ripping
  • rocketing
  • running
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  • scampering
  • scooting
  • scraping
  • scudding
  • scuffling
  • scurrying
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  • shaking a leg
  • shaving
  • shoehorning
  • shooting
  • skimming
  • skipping
  • slamming
  • smashing
  • speeding
  • sprinting
  • squeezing
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  • stepping
  • stepping on it
  • stepping out
  • streaking
  • striking
  • stuffing
  • sweeping
  • swiping
  • tearing
  • thudding
  • touching
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • trotting
  • wedging
  • whirling
  • whisking
  • whizzing
  • zipping
  • zooming

abutting

  • abreast
  • across the street
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • after
  • along toward
  • alongside
  • ambient
  • approaching
  • approximal
  • approximate
  • around
  • around the corner
  • at close quarters
  • at hand
  • attached
  • available
  • back-to-back
  • beside
  • bordering
  • bordering on
  • bounding
  • burning
  • circumjacent
  • close
  • close shave
  • close-at-hand
  • close-by
  • closest
  • coming
  • communicating
  • connected
  • connecting
  • consequent
  • contacting
  • contactual
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • convenient
  • converging
  • coterminous
  • edging
  • embracing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • ensuing
  • fencing
  • flanking
  • flush
  • following
  • fringing
  • give or take a little
  • handy
  • hard by
  • immediate
  • imminent
  • impending
  • impinging
  • in close proximity
  • in spitting distance
  • in the ball park
  • inclosing
  • interconnecting
  • joined
  • joining
  • juxtaposed
  • juxtapositional
  • later
  • lining
  • linked
  • marginal
  • margining
  • meeting
  • near
  • near-at-hand
  • nearby
  • nearest
  • nearly
  • neighboring
  • next
  • next door
  • next door to
  • next to
  • next-door
  • nigh
  • not remote
  • on the edge of
  • on the side
  • peripheral
  • practically
  • proximal
  • proximate
  • ready
  • rimming
  • side-by-side
  • skirting
  • subsequent
  • succeeding
  • surrounding
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • touching
  • united
  • verging
  • vincinal
  • warm

banging

  • agitation
  • barring
  • bashing
  • battering
  • batting
  • beaning
  • beating
  • belting
  • biffing
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bolting
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • bouncing
  • boxing
  • braining
  • brouhaha
  • brushing
  • buffeting
  • bulldozing
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • caroming
  • chaining
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • closing
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • clunking
  • colliding
  • confusion
  • conking
  • contacting
  • cracking
  • crashing
  • creaming
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • decking
  • dither
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • fastening
  • felling
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • fluster
  • flutter
  • fuss
  • glancing
  • grazing
  • hammering
  • hanging one on
  • hitting
  • impacting
  • impinging
  • jabbing
  • jostling
  • kicking
  • kissing
  • kneeing
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • landing
  • lashing
  • latching
  • lather
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • licking
  • locking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • muscling
  • nailing
  • nudging
  • panic
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pother
  • pounding
  • pressing
  • prodding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • pushing
  • rabbit-punching
  • ramming
  • rapping
  • rebounding
  • ricocheting
  • ricochetting
  • roughing
  • sapping
  • scraping
  • scuffing
  • sealing
  • securing
  • shaving
  • shoving
  • shutting
  • skimming
  • skipping
  • skulling
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spearing
  • stabbing
  • stamping
  • state
  • stew
  • stopping
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • sweat
  • sweeping
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • tapping
  • thrashing
  • thudding
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tizzy
  • to-do
  • touching
  • tumult
  • turbulence
  • turmoil
  • twitter
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whipping
  • zapping

joining

  • abutment
  • abutting
  • accumulating
  • accumulation
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • adjustment
  • admixture
  • affiliating
  • affiliation
  • aggregating
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • alliance
  • allying
  • amalgam
  • amalgamation
  • ambient
  • annexation
  • anthology
  • apposition
  • approximal
  • approximate
  • articulating
  • articulation
  • assemblage
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • assistance
  • associating
  • association
  • assortment
  • attached
  • attachment
  • band
  • banding together
  • blend
  • body
  • bond
  • bordering
  • bordering on
  • bounding
  • brotherhood
  • building
  • bunch
  • business
  • cahoots
  • cartel
  • catenating
  • cementing
  • chaining
  • channel
  • chumminess
  • circumjacent
  • clan
  • clique
  • close
  • closest
  • club
  • clustering
  • coacting
  • coactive
  • coadjuvant
  • coalescent
  • coalescing
  • coalition
  • coefficient
  • coherence
  • collaborating
  • collaborative
  • collecting
  • collection
  • collective
  • collegial
  • collocating
  • collocation
  • collusive
  • combination
  • combine
  • combined
  • combining
  • coming together
  • commixture
  • common
  • communicating
  • community
  • companionship
  • company
  • compiling
  • compounding
  • concatenating
  • concatenation
  • concerted
  • concerting
  • concomitance
  • concordance
  • concourse
  • concurrent
  • concurring
  • concursion
  • confederating
  • confederation
  • confluence
  • conglomerate
  • congregating
  • conjoining
  • conjointment
  • conjugating
  • conjugation
  • conjunction
  • connected
  • connecting
  • connection
  • connective
  • conniving
  • connotation
  • consociation
  • consolidating
  • consolidation
  • conspiring
  • constellating
  • constituent
  • construction
  • contact
  • contacting
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • convening
  • convergence
  • convergent
  • converging
  • cooperating
  • cooperation
  • cooperative
  • coordinated
  • copula
  • cording
  • corporation
  • correlation
  • coterie
  • coterminous
  • coupler
  • coupling
  • crew
  • crossing
  • crossroads
  • crowd
  • crush
  • division
  • dovetail
  • dovetailing
  • elbow
  • element
  • embracing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • ending at
  • entering
  • erection
  • fabrication
  • faction
  • fastening
  • fencing
  • firm
  • fitting together
  • flanking
  • flowing
  • flush
  • fraternity
  • friendship
  • fringing
  • fusing
  • fusion
  • gang
  • garner
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • getting in
  • going up to
  • gore
  • hand in glove
  • hanging together
  • harmonious
  • help
  • hinge
  • hitch
  • hitching
  • hooking
  • hookup
  • house
  • identification
  • immediate
  • impinging
  • impression
  • in
  • in league
  • inclosing
  • incorporating
  • incorporation
  • integrating
  • interconnecting
  • interconnection
  • interdependent
  • interest
  • interface
  • interfacing
  • interfusing
  • interlinking
  • interlocking
  • intermeshing
  • intermixture
  • intersection
  • join
  • joined
  • joint
  • jointure
  • junction
  • juncture
  • juxtaposed
  • juxtaposition
  • knee
  • knot
  • league
  • leaguing
  • ligament
  • ligation
  • ligature
  • lining
  • link
  • linkage
  • linked
  • linking
  • lodge
  • loop
  • lumping together
  • making common cause
  • manufacture
  • manufacturing
  • marginal
  • margining
  • marrying
  • mating
  • meeting
  • member
  • merger
  • merging
  • mingling
  • miter
  • mix
  • mixing
  • mixture
  • mob
  • modeling
  • molding
  • mortise
  • multitude
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearest
  • neighboring
  • network
  • next door
  • next-door
  • nexus
  • nigh
  • node
  • organization
  • outfit
  • ownership
  • pairing
  • part
  • participating
  • partnership
  • party
  • peripheral
  • piece
  • piecing together
  • pivot
  • playing ball
  • plug-in
  • pulling together
  • re-enlisting
  • re-enrolling
  • re-upping
  • reciprocal
  • recollection
  • recombining
  • reconnecting
  • reenlisting
  • reenrolling
  • reentering
  • rejoining
  • relation
  • relationship
  • remembrance
  • reunifying
  • reunion
  • reuniting
  • rimming
  • ring
  • rout
  • seam
  • section
  • setting up
  • shaping
  • shared
  • sharing
  • sisterhood
  • skirting
  • society
  • sorority
  • spanning
  • splice
  • splicing
  • spreading to
  • stretching
  • stringing
  • surrounding
  • suture
  • symbiotic
  • syndicate
  • synergetic
  • synergic
  • synergistic
  • tangency
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • team
  • terminal
  • throng
  • tie
  • tie up
  • tie-in
  • togetherness
  • touch
  • touching
  • train of thought
  • treasury
  • unification
  • unifying
  • union
  • united
  • uniting
  • verging
  • vinculum
  • weld
  • welding
  • wiring
  • yoke
  • yoking

verging

  • abutting
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • ambient
  • approaching
  • approximal
  • approximate
  • arriving
  • attached
  • attaining
  • bellying up
  • bordering
  • bordering on
  • bounding
  • circumjacent
  • close
  • closest
  • closing
  • closing in
  • coming
  • coming up
  • communicating
  • connected
  • connecting
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • coterminous
  • creeping up
  • drawing on
  • embracing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • fencing
  • flanking
  • flush
  • fringing
  • gaining
  • hitting
  • immediate
  • impinging
  • inclosing
  • insignificant
  • interconnecting
  • joined
  • joining
  • juxtaposed
  • landing
  • linked
  • low
  • making
  • marginal
  • minimal
  • minor
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearest
  • nearing
  • negligible
  • neighboring
  • next door
  • next-door
  • nigh
  • nighing
  • on the edge
  • peripheral
  • reaching
  • rimming
  • showing up
  • skirting
  • small
  • sneaking up
  • surrounding
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • touching
  • turning up
  • united

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