AFFECT

Definition:

1. [noun] the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
   
   
2. [verb] have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
   Synonyms: impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
   
   
3. [verb] act physically on; have an effect upon
   
   
4. [verb] connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
   Synonyms: involve, regard
   
   
5. [verb] make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
   Synonyms: feign, sham, pretend, dissemble
   
   
6. [verb] have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
   Synonyms: impress, move, strike
   
   

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Related Words:

• strike a blow
• repercuss
• tell on
• redound
• stimulate, excite
• process, treat
• hydrolize, hydrolise
• tinge, color, colour, distort
• queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril
• hit, strike
• subject
• trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
• influence, act upon, work
• slam-dunk
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• ulcerate
• sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise
• stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
• tense, strain, tense up
• relax, unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed
• jaundice
• register
• intoxicate, soak, inebriate
• implicate
• play possum
• take a dive
• bullshit, bull, fake
• mouth
• infect
• surprise
• impress, ingrain, instill
• awaken
• engrave
• strike dumb
• zap
• jar
• hit home, strike home, strike a chord, strike a note
• smite
• cloud
• pierce
• impress
• sweep away, sweep off
• disturb, upset, trouble
• touch, stir
• move
• sadden

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