affect
Academic Word List, sublist 2.
About 42.52 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To influence or alter.
The experience affected me deeply.
- verb To move to emotion.
He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
- verb Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
Hepatitis affects the liver.
- verb To dispose or incline.
- verb To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- verb To assign; to appoint.
- verb To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
- verb To feign or pretend.
Similar words
impress pretend touch on feign touch regard sham dissemble involve bear upon
Often followed by
the their a your our his and its them
Word family
affectabilities affectability affectable affected affecting affective affectively affects
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