Thesaurus: influence

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1. n. A flowing in or upon; influx.
2. n. Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
3. n. Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
4. n. Induction.
5. v. t. To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.
6. n. a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc
7. n. causing something without any direct or apparent effort
8. n. a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do
9. n. the effect of one thing (or person) on another
10. n. one having power to influence another
11. v. have and exert influence or effect
12. v. shape or influence; give direction to