The word "impinged" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has an effect or impact on something else, often in a negative way.
Example: "The new regulations impinged on the company's ability to operate efficiently."
Alternatives: "Affected" or "Encroached upon."
Wine sales at Bone's jumped by 11 percent per diner in the two weeks following the iPads' introduction, compared with the previous three weeks.Modern technology has impinged on wine making for years, often to traditionalists' dismay.
Thomas Drake, who worked at the National Security Agency, was threatened with life imprisonment for leaking to the Baltimore Sun unclassified details of a wasteful programme that also impinged on privacy.
It took all of Lady Thatcher's self-control to conceal her dismay over Mr Reagan's dithering.The falling-out over the American invasion of the tiny Commonwealth island of Grenada 18 months later was more public, but impinged less directly on British interests.
"I was writing before politics impinged itself upon my consciousness.
A 2009 survey of Latino families around the country whose homes had been foreclosed had similar findings: amid the stress, marriages broke down; family members fell out; children's academic performance suffered.The proliferation of foreclosures has impinged on politics, too.
At the crux of the issue is whether the Filipinos judiciously used "people power" this time".People power two" might not have advanced the cause of democracy in the Philippines because it impinged upon the constitutional process of impeaching an ineffective and lawless president.
RACHEL SEIFFERT'S first novel, "The Dark Room", which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2001, told the stories of three ordinary Germans and how the second world war impinged upon their lives.
A new principle now holds that corporations are capable of holding religious beliefs and that these beliefs may be impinged only under very limited circumstances.
That the Western world could fall off an economic cliff in the coming months, and with little warning, was a reality that barely impinged on the conferences.
As would any primate in an inquisitive mood, they tended to move their eyes rapidly to look straight at a dot of light whenever one flashed up at a random position on the screen, so that the light impinged on the most sensitive part of the retina.
For many people, this was perhaps the first time that the reality of the slave trade had impinged upon them: with their own eyes, they could see its cruelty.
