impinge

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impingō (“dash against, impinge”). Compare impact, derived from the perfect passive participle of impingō.

verb

1. (transitive, now rare) To make a physical impact on.
   Loud noise can impinge on the eardrum, causing temporary hearing damage.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To interfere with.
   It is astonishing that the meaning of a single declarative sentence enshrined in the Bill of Rights has evaded judicial construction establishing, at a minimum, some bedrock level of state sovereignty upon which the federal government can not impinge. 2006 Summer, Keith R. Fisher, “Toward a Basal Tenth Amendment: A Riposte to National Bank Preemption of State Consumer Protection Laws”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 29, number 3, pages 981–1034
3. (intransitive, figurative) To have an effect upon, especially a negative one.
   I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.[…] 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
   Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. 1971, George Steiner, “In a Post-Culture”, in In Bluebeard's Castle
   Except for a restricted range of examples, growth, stagnation, and decay everywhere in Western Europe can be explained mainly by endogenous forces. The 'world economy', such as it was, hardly impinged [on Europe]. 1982, Patrick O' Brien, “European Economic Development: The Contribution of the Periphery”, in The Economic History Review, volume 107, number 2, page 445
   Scarcity impinges on your mind. People behave differently when they perceive a thing to be scarce. 2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 3, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 56