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    af·fect
    [əˈfek(t)]
    verb
    affect (verb) · affects (third person present) · affected (past tense) · affected (past participle) · affecting (present participle)
    1. have an effect on; make a difference to:
      "the dampness began to affect my health" · "your attitude will affect how successful you are"
    Origin
    late Middle English (in the sense ‘attack as a disease’): from French affecter or Latin affect- ‘influenced, affected’, from the verb afficere (see affect).
    af·fect
    [əˈfek(t)]
    verb
    affect (verb) · affects (third person present) · affected (past tense) · affected (past participle) · affecting (present participle)
    1. pretend to have or feel (something):
      "as usual I affected a supreme unconcern" · "a book that affects to loathe the modern world"
    Origin
    late Middle English: from French affecter or Latin affectare ‘aim at’, frequentative of afficere ‘work on, influence’, from ad- ‘at, to’ + facere ‘do’. The original sense was ‘like, love’, hence ‘(like to) use, assume, etc.’.
    af·fect
    [ˈaˌfek(t)]
    noun
    psychology
    affect (noun)
    1. emotion or desire, especially as influencing behavior or action.
    Origin
    late 18th century (in philosophy, in the sense ‘an emotional, unreflective response’): coined in German from Latin affectus ‘disposition’, from afficere ‘to influence’ (see affect).
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  3. Affect means to1234:
    • Act on; produce an effect or change in.
    • Impress the mind or move the feelings of.
    • Attack or lay hold of (of pain, disease, etc.).
    • Pretend; influence.
    • Bring about a change, to move emotionally, or to infect, as a disease.
    • Have an influence on someone or something, or to cause a change in someone or something.
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    to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops. to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
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    affect to pretend; influence: It will affect the outcome. Not to be confused with: effect – a result; an influence: His protest had no effect. [The words affect and effect are among the most frequently confused words. Affect means to bring about a change, to move emotionally, or to infect, as a disease.
    www.thefreedictionary.com/affect
    Affect is both a noun and a verb, but the verb is far more common; it means "to act on or change someone or something," as in "The change will affect everyone."
    www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/affect
    to have an influence on someone or something, or to cause a change in someone or something:
    dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/affect
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