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  • 71affect — The emotional feeling, tone, and mood attached to a thought, including its external manifestations. [L. affectus, state of mind, fr. afficio, to have influence on] blunted a. a disturbance in mood seen in schizophrenic patients manifested …

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  • 72affect display — Facial expressions, postures, and gestures indicating emotional states …

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  • 73affect — effect …

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  • 74affect — af·fect || É™ fekt v. influence; move someone (emotionally); attack (of a disease); act as if, pretend; have a certain disposition towards; have an affinity for …

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  • 75affect the health — influence the health, have an impact on the health …

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  • 76affect — v. a. 1. Influence, act upon, work upon, modify, alter, change, transform. 2. Concern, interest, regard, relate to, bear upon. 3. Touch, move, impress, melt, subdue, overcome, pierce. 4. Crave, yearn for, aspire to, aim at, desire, like, be drawn …

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  • 77affect — I verb 1) this development may have affected the judge s decision Syn: have an effect on, influence, act on, work on, have an impact on, impact; change, alter, modify, transform, form, shape, sway, bias 2) he was visibly affec …

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  • 78affect — I v 1. influence, sway, act on, play on, work on, impress upon, impact upon, effect; change, alter, modify, transform; concern, interest, be of interest to, be of importance to, apply to, relate to, pertain to. 2. touch, stir, move, soften, melt …

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  • 79affect — af·fect …

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  • 80affect — I verb 1) this affected our decision Syn: influence, have an effect on, have an impact on, act on, change, alter, modify 2) he was visibly affected by the experience Syn: move, touch, hit (hard) …

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