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Affect

/əˈfekt/

To influence or make a change in something

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It affected him like an electric shock.

'It affects us all right if he doesn't start at all.'

It is an affecting thing.

Middle English, from Latin affectus disposition, mood, from afficere to do to, to affect, possibly from ad- to + facere do, make.

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