Glance and Impact

Glance

Glance verb - To strike and fly off at an angle.

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Impact and glance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Impact" instead the word "Glance" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: glanced, glancing

Impact verb - To come into usually forceful contact with something.

Usage example: the damage sustained when a car going 40 miles an hour impacts with a brick wall

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Glance and impact are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Glance" instead the word "Impact" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless

better	better glance	better impact
initial	initial glance	initial impact
single	single glance	single impact
hard	hard glance	hard impact
Other adjectives: meaningful, major, final, slightest, last, resulting.

way	glance way	impact way
ship	glance ship	impact ship

We cut back to a close-up of Red right before the crash, and when we hear the impact, she silently tenses up and shoots a glance at the camera.

Source: Aside Glance
Played with and ultimately subverted in Gears Of War 3 with Clayton Carmine, who is shot in the head by a friendly sniper mistaking him for a hostile... but the poor angle of the impact causes the round to glance off his helmet, leaving him stunned but unhurt.

Source: Helmets Are Hardly Heroic

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