Thesaurus: affect
To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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Definitions
- v. t. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
- v. t. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
- v. t. To love; to regard with affection.
- v. t. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
- v. t. To dispose or incline.
- v. t. To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
- v. t. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- v. t. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
- v. t. To assign; to appoint.
- n. Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
- n. the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
- v. have an effect upon