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Noun affect has 1 sense
- affect - the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
 
--1 is a kind of feeling 
  
Verb affect has 5 senses
- affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
 
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Somebody ----s somebody 
 Something ----s somebody 
 Something ----s something 
 - affect - act physically on; have an effect upon
 
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Somebody ----s somebody 
 Something ----s somebody 
 Something ----s something 
- involve, affect, regard - connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
 
--3 is one way to refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s somebody 
 Something ----s somebody 
 Something ----s something 
 - feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble - make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
 
--4 is one way to misrepresent, belie 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Somebody ----s that CLAUSE 
 Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE 
 - affect, impress, move, strike - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
 
Sample sentences: 
The bad news will affect him 
The good news will affect her 
   
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