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  • 61affect — See affect, effect …

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  • 62affect — Synonyms and related words: act, act a part, act like, act on, act upon, actuate, adopt, affect, affection, affectivity, agitate, alter, answer to, appertain to, apply to, assume, attack, attitude, be dressed in, bear on, bear upon, belong to,… …

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  • 63AFFECT — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index affect noun bias, effect, guidance, heritage, hold, impact, influence, wallop adjective influential …

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  • 64affect — There are two distinct verbs affect in English: ‘simulate insincerely’ [15] and ‘have an effect on’ [17]; but both come ultimately from the same source, Latin afficere. Of compound origin, from the prefix ad ‘to’ and facere ‘do’, this had a wide… …

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  • 65affect — [[t]əfe̱kt[/t]] ♦♦ affects, affecting, affected 1) VERB If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way. [V n] Nicotine adversely affects the functioning of the heart and arteries... [V n] More than …

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  • 66affect — n. (in psychiatry) 1) the predominant emotion in a person s mental state at a particular moment. Blunted affect is a diminished intensity of emotional response; it is a feature of some forms of chronic schizophrenia and depression. 2) the emotion …

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  • 67affect*/*/*/ — [əˈfekt] verb [T] 1) to change or influence something, often in a negative way Did the newspapers really affect the outcome of the election?[/ex] The disease affects many different organs of the body.[/ex] 2) to have a strong effect on someone s… …

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  • 68affect — /ə fekt/ verb to cause some change in something, especially to have a bad effect on something ● The new government regulations do not affect us …

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  • 69affect — There are two distinct verbs affect in English: ‘simulate insincerely’ [15] and ‘have an effect on’ [17]; but both come ultimately from the same source, Latin afficere. Of compound origin, from the prefix ad ‘to’ and facere ‘do’, this had a wide… …

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  • 70inappropriate affect — affect that is incongruent with the situation or with the content of a patient s ideas or speech …

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