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English noun: affect | |||
| 1. | affect (feeling) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
English verb: affect | |||
| 1. | affect (change) have an effect upon | ||
| Samples | Will the new rules affect me?. | ||
| Synonyms | bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | act upon, bother, color, colour, discommode, disoblige, distort, endanger, excite, expose, hit, hydrolise, hydrolize, incommode, inconvenience, influence, peril, process, put out, queer, redound, repercuss, scupper, slam-dunk, stimulate, strike, strike a blow, subject, tell on, tinge, treat, trouble, work | ||
| 2. | affect (body) act physically on; have an effect upon | ||
| Samples | The medicine affects my heart rate. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | arouse, attack, brace, calm, cramp, energise, energize, inebriate, intoxicate, jaundice, loosen up, make relaxed, perk up, register, relax, sedate, soak, stimulate, strain, tense, tense up, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize, ulcerate, unlax, unstrain, unwind | ||
| 3. | affect (stative) connect closely and often incriminatingly | ||
| Samples | This new ruling affects your business. | ||
| Synonyms | involve, regard | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | implicate | ||
| 4. | affect (communication) make believe with the intent to deceive | ||
| Samples | He feigned that he was ill. He shammed a headache. | ||
| Synonyms | dissemble, feign, pretend, sham | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE. Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | belie, misrepresent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bull, bullshit, fake, mouth, play possum, take a dive, talk through one's hat | ||
| Verb group | make, make believe, pretend | ||
| 5. | affect (emotion) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | ||
| Samples | This child impressed me as unusually mature. This behavior struck me as odd. | ||
| Examples | The bad news will affect him, The good news will affect her | ||
| Synonyms | impress, move, strike | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alienate, awaken, cloud, disturb, engrave, hit home, impress, impress, infect, ingrain, instill, jar, move, pierce, sadden, smite, stir, strike a chord, strike a note, strike dumb, strike home, surprise, sweep away, sweep off, touch, trouble, upset, zap | ||
| Cause | experience, feel | ||
| Verb group | actuate, come to, hit, incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel, strike | ||
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