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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impacted
adj
  1. wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn: impacted, wedged]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Impact \Im*pact"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impacted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Impacting}.] [L. impactus, p. p. of impingere to push,
      strike against. See {Impinge}.]
      To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a
      place. --Woodward.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Impacted \Im*pact"ed\, a.
      Driven together or close.
  
      {Impacted fracture} (Surg.), a fracture in which the
            fragments are driven into each other so as to be
            immovable.
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