Affect

Definitions: Affect

Affect

Noun

1. The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion.

Verb

1. Have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?".

2. Act physically on; have an effect upon.

3. Connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business".

4. Make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache".

5. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "affect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Business

Fine Arts

Literature

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Affect

Affectation

Verb: affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs; (arrogance); boast; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo.

Affections

Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love).

Desire

Care for, affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to; fancy; prefer; (choose).

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.

Falsehood

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

Love

Verb: love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love; with Adjective: have a love; n. for, entertain a love; n. for, harbor cherish a love; n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet.

Relation

Verb: be related; Adjective: have a relation; Noun: relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest.

Tendency

Verb: tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote; (aid).

Crosswords: Affect

Dutch (affectation, affection), French (affect).

No matter how much America despises you I won't let it affect my feelings for you. (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg)

And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future. (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood, Jr.)

You don't know what would happen if you kill this one. His death could affect the whole system, but I guess that doesn't matter to (The One; writing credit: Glen Morgan; James Wong)

I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes)

That doesn't affect the irony honey-pie. (Texasville; writing credit: Peter Bogdanovich)

The same affect as the game ("Count It Off"; performing artist: Jade)

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Books

• Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self (reference)

• Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child (reference)

• Culture and Depression: Studies in Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder (reference)

• Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth (reference)

• Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (reference)

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Music

• Affect and Effect in 17th Century Instrumental Music (reference)

• Jupiter Affect (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae can not only affect the respiratory system, but the skin as well, where it manifests as an open wound.Credit: CDC.

"Talking Head" by Hassan Sedaghat. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info on how the parameters affect the speed.

Astronomers using the Hubble telescope to track weather on Mars and how it might affect the ...Credit: NASA.

NRCS Partnership Efforts on the Susquehanna River Affect the Chesapeake Bay.Credit: Bob Nichols.

These foods are typical of those eaten by the 12 volunteers during a study of how plant-rich diets affect blood lipids, antioxidant defenses, and colon function. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Medicines can affect driving : Check The Labels Or Ask Your Doctor.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

How Indoor Air Pollutants Affect The Body.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

If you assume Aids won't affect you, then you should still assume the Earth is flat.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Alcohol and drugs affect your judgment.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Depression It can affect you in ways.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. (reference)

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. (reference)

If the solicitude of the convention, respecting our peace with foreign powers, induced a provision that the supreme court should take original jurisdiction in cases which might be supposed to affect them; yet the clause would have proceeded no further than to provide for such cases, if no further restriction on the powers of congress had been intended. (reference)

By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government. (reference)

The present stipulation will not affect the existing nationality of the inhabitants of the territory of the Saar Basin. (reference)

To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. (reference)

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How it would affect Frank was among the earliest thoughts of both.

Whatever might affect this condition, were it only on the surface, made him shudder as if it were the commencement of another.

But the dining out, being, as I have stated, a constant element, does not in the least affect a comparative statement like this.

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Health

Spasmodic dysphonia can affect anyone. (references)

Headaches affect millions of Americans. (references)

It appears to affect men more than women. (references)

Business

Political Structure Finally, political constraints can affect access. (references)

Corruption and conflicts of interest also affect judicial decisionmaking. (references)

Quality, packaging and price are factors that affect purchasing decisions. (references)

Children

Russia

Reportedly the designation is an honorary one and does not affect those programs' budgets. (references)

Belgium

Children have the right to a voice in court cases that affect them, such as divorce proceedings. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

Traditional social safety measures were inadequate to cope with the social pressures that affect families. (references)

Civil Liberties

Honduras

The dominant religion, Catholicism, does not affect adversely the religious freedom of others. (references)

Cambodia

The Constitution implicitly limits free speech by requiring that speech not adversely affect public security. (references)

Cameroon

Many professors believe that adherence to opposition political parties can affect adversely their professional opportunities and advancement. (references)

Discrimination

Yemen

Entrenched cultural attitudes often affect women's ability to enjoy equal rights. (references)

Brazil

The International Labor Organization (ILO) notes that important differences in wages affect women and blacks, particularly in rural areas. (references)

Economic History

Uae

No regulatory issues affect the market. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

They also affect the severity of punishment in the case of legal infractions. (references)

Morocco

Aside from external pressures, resource constraints also affect the court system. (references)

Argentina

These rulings do not affect those cases for which military leaders were tried and later pardoned. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

Indigenous groups assert that such encroachment often can damage the environment and negatively affect the health of the native people. (references)

Australia

Through exercising their right to vote and through the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Commission (ATSIC), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are able to participate in government decisionmaking that affect them. (references)

Venezuela

The groups had charged that only the legislature may alter the nature of the reserve; that the public review process prior to the change was inadequate; and that expanded mining activities would affect adversely the health of the Warao, Arawako, Karina, Akawaio, and Pemon indigenous communities that inhabit the Imataca watershed area. (references)

Minorities

Egypt

Ignorance of the law and societal pressure, including the centrality of marriage to a woman's identity, often affect her decision. (references)

Ecuador

Afro-Ecuadorian organizations note that despite the absence of official discrimination, societal discrimination continues to affect them, including stereotyping. (references)

Latvia

In December 1999, the Parliament passed a revision of the Language Law, which went into effect on September 1, 2000. The Language Law regulates the uses of language that affect public safety, health care, protection of the consumer, and labor rights. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRIA

Intellectual property problems do not specifically affect U.S. trade. (references)

GREECE

Foreign debt does not affect Greece's ability to import U.S. goods and services. (references)

Syria

These concerns affect the business calculations of foreigners even more strongly. (references)

Political Rights

Russia

Changes to the Voting Rights Act affect legislation at both the federal and regional levels of the Russian Federation. (references)

Burkina Faso

The irregularities cited by observers in the actual voting process were limited in number and scope and did not appear to affect the ultimate outcome of the election. (references)

Greece

Some minority members have charged that oversight by this office rather than by elected local governors reduced their ability to use the democratic process to influence decisions that affect them. (references)

Trade

France

Similar quotas affect radio broadcasting. (references)

Guinea

The GOG states that there are no foreign exchange controls that affect trade. (references)

Israel

Printing dyes and other marking materials should not affect merchandise quality. (references)

Travel

Kenya

They are normally localized, but they could affect tourists. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The announced decreases do not affect high voltage users of which there are only four. (references)

Ecuador

Travelers to Quito may require some time to adjust to the altitude (close to 10,000 feet), which can adversely affect blood pressure, digestion and energy level. (references)

Women

Ireland

Parental leave does not affect a mother's right to maternity leave. (references)

Togo

Wife beating has been estimated to affect approximately 10 percent of married women. (references)

Vietnam

The Government also has a committee for the advancement of women, which coordinates interministerial programs that affect women. (references)

Worker Rights

Marshall Islands

This exemption does not affect a significant segment of the workforce. (references)

Iceland

However, the changes were not expected to be retroactive and would not affect the existing clubs, most of which were located downtown. (references)

Russia

The law specifies that a minimum level of essential services must be provided if a strike could affect the safety or health of citizens. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "affect": affect a dress ♦ affect an accent ♦ affect great elegance ♦ affect ignorance ♦ affect stupidity ♦ affect the health ♦ affect the soul ♦ affect the woods ♦ affect to sleep ♦ have an affect ♦ have an affect on. Additional references.

Afrikaan

aangry (agitate, move, stir), aandoen (activate, call, call at, cause, give, give rise to). (various references)

Albanian

afekt, veproj (act on, behave, do, do with, proceed, take effect, work), shtirem (dissemble, dissimulate, feign, impersonate, pretend), prek (adjoin, attack, brush, feel, graze, handle, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, reach, rub, touch, touch on, touch upon), preferoj (choose, elect, prefer), pëlqej (approve, enjoy, fancy, Favor, favour, like, love, please, relish, take to), ndikoj (bias, color, colour, influence, operate, prepossess, sway), kap (apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), godas fort (bang, smash, smite, thump), godas (astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, defeat, drop, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack), dëmtoj (batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نزع إلى (inclined), ‏قلد (ape, burlesque, copy, echo, fake, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mimic, mock, parrot, present, send up, sham, simulate, vest), ‏ولع ب (be fond of, fancy, hack, hound, love, take a fancy to, take to), ‏حرك المشاعر (touch), ‏تكلف (affectation, artificiality, attitudinize, constrain, mannerism, mummery, pose, preciosity), ‏تظاهر (assume, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, sham, show, simulate, simulation), ‏عاطفة (affection, chord, emotion, feeling, passion, poignancy, pulse, sentiment), ‏ألف (accustom, compile, comprise, constitute, form, frequent, millenary, put together, score, thousand, write), ‏أثر في (impact, influence, inspire, involve, manipulate, overawe, prepossess, react, touch), ‏شعور (aura, cheer, consciousness, feel, feeling, hunch, pulse, sensation). (various references)

Bulgarian 

засягам (advert, afflict, apply, bruise, concern, effect, hit, hurt, import, offend, pique, refer, regard, tell, touch, treat of), действувам (act, grip, move, operate, proceed), имитирам (ape, imitate, mimic, send up, simulate), позирам като, повлиявам (be influenced, bias, have an influence upon, predetermine, prejudice), покъртвам (move deeply, touch deeply), правя се (pretend, profess), предпочитам (choose, elect, lean, like better, prefer, see), давам си вид, афект, склонен съм към (run to, tend to), обичам (be fond of, care, care for, enjoy, like, love, taste), влияя (act on, influence), вълнувам (agitate, excite, perturb, ripple, stir, trouble, vex, work up), въздействувам (impinge, influence, operate, react, reverberate, work), клоня към (tend to, verge to), трогвам (move, penetrate, reach, touch), чувство (emotion, feel, feeling, sensation, sense, sentiment), харесвам (cotton, dig, fancy, like, relish, take a fancy to), преструвам се (dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, personate, pretend, profess, put it on, put on an act, sham, simulate). (various references)

Chinese 

波及 (involve, spread to), 影�"� (Affecting, Clout, Effected, Effecting, INFLUENCE, Influenced, Influencing). (various references)

Czech

zachvátit, postihnout (afflict, befall, hit), předstírat (dissimulate, fake, feign, make believe, pretend, profess, sham, simulate), pùsobit na (have an effect on, work upon), dotýkat se (concern, handle, touch, touch upon), dojímat. (various references)

Danish

affekt. (various references)

Dutch

aandoen (activate, agitate, call at, cause, give rise to, move, put on, switch, turn on). (various references)

Esperanto

afekcii, kortuŝi (move), influi (influence). (various references)

Farsi 

متاثرکردن (Touch), نتیجه (Consequence, Effect, Growth, Harvest, Hatch, Outcome, Outgrwth, Resolution, Rest, Result, Sequel, Success, Upshot), وانمودکردن (Assume, Dissemble, Fake, Look, Pretend, Represent, Seem, Sham, Simulate), تغییردادن (Alter, Change, Interchange, Modify, Permute, Turquoise, Vary), تظاهرکردن به , احساسات (Emotion, Heartbeat), اثرکردن بر, اثر (Clue, Consequence, Effect, Efficacy, Growth, Impress, Impression, Opus, Rake, Relic, Result, Rut, Sign, Symptom, Trace, Track, Tract, Umbrage, Vestige), دوست داشتن (Like, List, Love, Savor), برخورد (Address, Clash, Conflict, Confliction, Contact, Contiguity, Encounter, Greet, Incidence, Reception, Smash, Strike, Tilt). (various references)

Finnish

vaikuttaa (act, be conducive, be effective, conduce, contribute, exercise an effect, have effect, influence, take effect), tekeytyä joksikin (feign, pretend to be, sham), teeskennellä (assume an air of, be affected, dissemble, feign, make believe, pretend, simulate), kohdistua (apply to, be concerned with, be directed, be turned). (various references)

French

influer, affecter, affect, émouvoir. (various references)

Frisian

beynfloedzje (act, influence). (various references)

German

beeinflussen (act, govern, impinge, infect, influence, sway, tamper with, to bias, to influence), affekt (affection, emotion), bewegen (actuate, budge, concern, exercise, incline, induce, move, move about, move around, moved, persuade, prompt, shake, shift, stir, to budge, to induce, to move), betreffen (appertain, apply, bear upon, concern, involve, pertain, regard, to affect, to concern, to pertain), berühren (agitate, border on, concern, contact, handle, handling, meet, move, skim, to touch, touch, touch on). (various references)

Greek 

επηρεάζω (induce, influence, make a difference, sway, weight with). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפ�'וע (blight, come across, harm, hurt, impinge, injure, offend, prejudice, slight, strike, wound), ל�"שפיע על (induce, sway), ל�"עמי�" פ� ים (dissimulate, feign, make believe, pose, pretend, sham, simulate), �"פעלות (affectivity, effect, impression). (various references)

Hungarian

testalkat (body build, build, disposition, habit, physique, set-up, shape), meghat (agitate, move, to move, to pierce, to touch, to unman), izgalom (ado, agitation, bang, combustion, dither, excitation, excitement, fermentation, flurry, fluster, flutter, fume, furor, furore, perturbation, shake-up, stew, stir, tension, thrill, throes, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity, turmoil), hat (six, taken, to affect, to impress, to operate, to strike home, to take, took), érint (concern, dab, feel, felt, to affect, to concern, to feel, to graze, to mouth, to shave, to skim, touch, touch on). (various references)

Indonesian

senang akan, pura-pura (affection, illusive, mock, ostensible, pretend, pretended, quasi), mempengaruhi (influence). (various references)

Italian

affettare (carve, put on, slice, slice up), interessare (be interested in, be of interest, captivate, care, concern, interest, intrigue, matter), colpire (bang, beat, buffet, bump, catch, clout, damage, dazzle, hit, jab, knock, Lam, pelt, poke, pound, punch, rap, run across, shock, shoot, slap, smite, sock, spear, strike, strike down, swat, swipe, thwack), commuovere (be moved, move, thrill, touch), emozione (emotion, excitement), fingere (act, assume, counterfeit, fake, feign, play, pretend, sham, simulate), incidere su, influire su (influence), vivere (be, be alive, live), prediligere (prefer), preferire (choose, have rather, like, prefer, rather), riguardare (apply, concern, examine, look at, pertain, refer, regard, touch), simulare (feign, malinger, mimic, pretend, sham, simulate), toccare (be turn, be up to, concern, fall, feel, finger, handle, happen, have, hurt, move, reach, taction, to touch, touch, touch each other, touch in), trovarsi (be, be found, be located, find, find oneself, lie, occur, stand), influenzare (actuate, bias, condition, influence, prepossess, sway). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

拘わる (to affect, to concern oneself in, to have to do with, to influence, to stick to). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きどる (to affect, to put on airs), くらしにひびく (to affect the cost of living), さしひびく (to affect, to influence), さしさわる (to adversely affect, to hinder), さわる (to affect, to be harmful to, to do one harm, to feel, to hinder, to interfere with, to touch), かっ�"つける (to affect a stylish air), かかわる (to affect, to concern oneself in, to have to do with, to influence, to stick to), かかる (easel, to affect, to be suspended from, to be the work of, to be trapped, to concern, to hang, to involve, to suffer from, to take), から� にさわる (to affect ones health, to be bad for health), あそびあるく (to visit one place after another without affect), えいきょう�'およぼす (to affect). (various references)

Korean 

영향을 미치십시�". (various references)

Malay

aruh ... mempengaruhi (act, influence). (various references)

Manx

goaill (acceptance, apprehend, apprehension, arrest, assumption, assumption of office, bring off, capture, catch, contract, contract as disease, contraction, distrain, draw off, engage, expropriation, impound, preoccupation, reduce, seizure, take), gleashaghey (advance, flow, flow of people, move), bentyn rish (concern, relative, tamper, touch, vis-a-vis, wash, wash of sea). (various references)

Norwegian

påvirke (influence), berøre. (various references)

Papiamen

influensiá (act, influence), influenshá (act, influence). (various references)

Pig Latin

affectay

Polish

wpływać. (various references)

Portuguese

assumir (accept, admit, assume, put on, take on), afetar (concern, feign, have an affect on, infect, smite, touch), afecto, abalar (concuss, convulse, depolarise, jar, jolterhead, move, scamper, shake, shock, stir, toss, unfix, unsettle), usar (apply, do without, employ, employee, exercise book, exert, make use of, take, to use, use, wear), transporte (bearing, carriage, carry, carry over, carrying, colportage, conduction, conveyance, conveying, driving, extraction, flush, freight, haul, haulage, hawking, portage, porterage, rapture, trance, transfer, transference, transferring, transit, transport, transportation, transposition), simular (assume, camouflage, counterfeit, feign, feigned, feldspar, make believe, palter, play actor, pretend, purport, put on, sham, simulate), empregar (cob, devote, employ, exert, give small change, hire, make use of, placatory, place, put, spend, throw, use), emoção (affection, emotion, hoodwink, kick, pulse, sentiment, thrill). (various references)

Romanian

ataca (approach, assault, attack, engage, fall, go at, go for, hit, mug, pelt, pirate, Raven, start, tackle, thrust), afişa (advertise, announce, bill, display, exhibit, paste up, put up), afecta (afflict, alter, appropriate, assume, concern, disorder, feign, grieve, pretend, sham, simulate, touch, trouble), afect (affection, emotion, feeling), simula (act, assume, dissemble, feign, imitate, make, make believe, malinger, play off, pretend, sham, simulate), se preface cã, interesa (commend, concern, import, interest, involve), influenţa (bias, bring to bear, influence, lobby, predetermine, reach, sway, work), impresiona (impress, meet, shake, strike), folosi (anticipate, apply, avail, benefit, boot, dispose, employ, impress, make use of, occupy, practise, put forth, seize, stand smb. in good stead, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), emoţiona (agitate, alarm, excite, flutter, move, stir, thrill, touch). (various references)

Russian 

трогать (finger, handle, move, palm, paw, reach, tamper, touch), влиять (act, influence, influenced), затронуть, задевать (brush against, graze), аффект, любить (be fond of, care for, like, liked, likes, likes to, love), притворяться (act a part, assume, assume a mask, dissimulate, feign, make believe, play a part, playact, put on a mask, simulate, wear a mask), поражать (afflict, astound, confound, flabbergast, invade, shock, smite, smote, strike), действовать на. (various references)

Scottish

gluais (agitate, move, put in motion, stir), drùidh (influence, ooze through, penetrate, soak). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

afekt, uzbuditi (disturb, excite, stir, stir up, thrill, touch), uticati (disembogue, flow, have an effect, influence), pogoditi (hit, nail, plug, score), ganuti (impassion, move, strike home), dirnuti (touch), delovati (influence, work). (various references)

Spanish

afectar (assume, attack, freak out, hit, impact, influence, put on, take, touch, warp, work), conmover (agitate, move, Pierce, shake, stir, thrill, touch). (various references)

Swedish

påverka (act, bias, impinge, influence, will). (various references)

Turkish

arzu (appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen), yaşamak (dwell, exist, experience, inhabit, live, subsist, taste), tutmak (abide by, add up to, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), taslamak (assume, dissimulate, pose, posture, pretend to, put it on), sevmek (be fond of, be sweet on smb., care, caress, dandle, enjoy, fancy, fondle, like, love, pet), sarsmak (afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, concuss, convulse, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), numarası yapmak (act, feign, make a show of, play, pretend, simulate), hoşlanmak (be attracted, be partial to, be pleased with, be taken by, be taken with, care, click, delight, dig, enjoy, fancy, have a liking for smb., like, relish, take a fancy to, take a shine to smb., take to), heyecan (agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), etkilemek (cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head), etki etmek (act, effect, have influence upon, operate, sway), dokunmak (be intolerant of, clap, contact, disagree, feel, handle, kiss, tip, touch), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), üzmek (afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry). (various references)

Turkmen 

degirmek (concern). (various references)

Ukranian 

уражати (afflict, astonish, astound, attack, nettle, petrify, strike), удавати (assume, counterfeit, let on, make believe, profess), хвилювати (agitate, amove, appeal, commove, disturb, embroil, excite, ferment, fluster, inflame, perturbate, pother, reck, tempest, worry), шкодити (blast, harm, wrong), вадити, впливати (bear in, influence, manipulate, operate, predetermine, react, sway), набирати форми, зворушувати (appeal, impassion), афект, любити щось, прагнути (aim, aspire, endeavor, endeavour, ensue, gasp for, gravitate, hanker, point, try for, wish for), прикидатися (counterfeit, dissimulate, feign, pretend, profess, sham, simulate), призначати (administer, administrate, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, attach, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put, tell off), потребувати (cost, crave, need, require, suppose, want), діяти (act, functionate, operate, proceed, run, tool, work). (various references)

Welsh

menu (impress, mark), ffugio (feign, forge), effeithio (effect), cymryd arno (assume, pretend). (various references)

adfecerunt, adfectu, adficere, adficerent, adficiam, adficiant, adficiar, adficient, adficientes, affecti, affectu, affectum, contineo, inflecto, moram, moras, more, moris, morisque, moro, mose, mota, motae, moti, motio, motu, motum, motus, moveamini, movearis, moveat, moveatur, movebant, movebantur, movebatur, movebit, movebitur, movebo, movebor, movebunt, movebuntur, movemini, movemur, movenda, movens, movent, moventes, moventur, moveo moti motum, movere, moverem, moverentur, moveret, moveri, moveris, moverit, moverunt, moveruntque, moves, movete, movetur, movissent, movit, pertingat, pertingebat, pertingendi, pertingens, pertingentes, pertingeret. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "affect": affectabilities, affectability, affectable, affectation, affectations, affected, affectedly, affectedness, affectednesses, affecter, affecters, affecting, affectingly, affection, affectional, affectionally, affectionate, affectionately, affectioned, affectionless, affections, affective, affectively, affectivities, affectivity, affectless, affectlessness, affectlessnesses, affects. (additional references)

Words ending with "affect": disaffect. (additional references)

Words containing "affect": disaffected, disaffecting, disaffection, disaffections, disaffects, unaffected, unaffectedly, unaffectedness, unaffectednesses, unaffecting, unaffectionate, unaffectionately. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Affect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afecs, afect, afent, affe, affec, affectd, affectg, affekt, Afferty, affet, affetct, afffect, affic, affict, Afftc, Afic, eafect, Jaffet, naffest. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: facet.

-2 letters: cafe, caff, cate, face, fact, fate, feat, feta, tace, teff.

-3 letters: ace, act, aff, aft, ate, cat, eat, eff, eft, eta, fat, fet, tae, tea.

-4 letters: ae, at, ef, et, fa, ta.

+1 letter: affects.

+2 letters: affected, affecter, facelift.

+3 letters: affecters, affecting, affection, affective, afflicted, affricate, chaffiest, disaffect, effectual, facelifts, officiate, suffocate.

+4 letters: affectable, affectedly, affections, affectless, afflictive, affricates, diffracted, disaffects, effacement, effectuate, efficacity, facelifted, farfetched, officiated, officiates, suffocated, suffocates, trafficked, trafficker, tuffaceous, unaffected.

+5 letters: affectation, affectingly, affectional, affectioned, affectively, affectivity, affricative, aftereffect, caffeinated, disaffected, effacements, effectually, effectuated, effectuates, facelifting, ineffectual, suffocative, trafficable, traffickers, unaffecting.

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