affect
/əˈfɛkt/ verb C2- To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of. · to affect ignorance· to affect a British accent
He/she/it affects · Past affected · Past participle affected · -ing form affecting
Verb forms
- Base form
- affect
- He/she/it
- affects
- Past
- affected
- Past participle
- affected
- -ing form
- affecting
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I do assure you that the news does not affect me either with pleasure or pain.
We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other.
The points would affect no object inside the train.
His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way affect him.
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