verb#1,474 by frequency
affect
/əˈfɛkt/
To influence or alter; To move to emotion; Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm
- he/she/it
- affects
- past
- affected
- past participle
- affected
Meanings
- 1
To influence or alter
The changes will affect us all.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
We must not allow these problems to affect the project.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To move to emotion
- 3
Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body)
- 4
To dispose or inclinerare
- 5
To tend to by affinity or dispositionrare
- 6
To assign; to appointrare
- 7
To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restrictionrare
- 8
To feign or pretendrare
- 9
To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display ofrare
- 10
To aim for, to try to obtainrare