impacted

[ im-pak-tid ]
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adjective
  1. tightly or immovably wedged in.

  2. Dentistry. noting a tooth so confined in its socket as to be incapable of normal eruption.

  1. driven together; tightly packed.

  2. densely populated or crowded; overcrowded: an impacted school district.

Origin of impacted

1
First recorded 1675–85; obsolete adjective impact (from Latin impāctus, past participle of impingere “to fasten, cause to collide, strike,” equivalent to im- “in” + pag-, variant stem of pangere “to drive in, plant firmly” + -tus past participle suffix) + -ed2; see im-1, impinge

Other words from impacted

  • non·im·pact·ed, adjective
  • un·im·pact·ed, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for impacted

impacted

/ (ɪmˈpæktɪd) /


adjective
  1. (of a tooth) unable to erupt, esp because of being wedged against another tooth below the gum

  2. (of a fracture) having the jagged broken ends wedged into each other

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