Impact
Impact verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Usage example: the tragic loss of his father impacted the boy for the rest of his life
Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless
Move
Move verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Usage example: we were deeply moved by the program of patriotic music
How words are described
| high | high impact | high move |
| physical | physical impact | physical move |
| better | better impact | better move |
| similar | similar impact | similar move |
| Other adjectives: single, powerful, actual, real, big, great, final, extra, double, last, different, devastating. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Most of the book had a magical family arguing about if they have enough power to move it, and if they should even bother, if enough of the family would survive the impact anyway.
Source: Colony Drop -
The move was more high impact and was not even a complete version of the move, as she would drop opponents straight down after only getting halfway through the flip instead of ending up on top of them in a true Hurricanrana.
Source: Wrestler in All of Us - His fists move extremely fast when he strikes someone in close quarters, hard enough to crumple armor and throw people across the room, but his arms also move so fast and with so much force that they'd break on impact.
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Move and Impact. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/impact/move
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Move or Impact. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/impact/move.
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