Another Word For AFFECT

impress

Verb : (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

Verb : (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.

Verb : (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).

pretend

Verb : To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.

Verb : To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).

Verb : To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to)

touch on

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To mention briefly; to cursorily discuss.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To come or go to for a short time.

feign

Verb : To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.

Verb : To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.

Verb : To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.

touch

Verb : Primarily physical senses.

Verb : (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.

Verb : (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

regard

Verb : (transitive) To look at; to observe.

Verb : (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.

sham

Verb : To deceive, cheat, lie.

Verb : To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

Verb : To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

dissemble

Verb : (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.

Verb : (transitive) To feign.

Verb : (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.

involve

Verb : To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.

Verb : (specifically) To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply.

Verb : To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.

bear upon

Verb : To influence, have an effect upon.

Verb : To be relevant to.

bear on

Verb : To influence, have an effect on.

Verb : To be relevant to.

Verb : To harm, hinder or be a burden upon.

move

Verb : (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

Verb : (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act

Verb : (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.

impact

Noun : The striking of one body against another; collision.

Noun : The force or energy of a collision of two objects.

Noun : (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.

strike

Verb : (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

Verb : (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.

Verb : (transitive) To hit.

feel

Verb : (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.

Verb : (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.

Verb : (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.

concern

Noun : That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.

Noun : The placement of interest or worry on a subject.

Noun : A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.

influenced

Adjective : Subject to an effect caused by a person or thing outside of the subject's control.

influencing

Noun : (obsolete) influence

influential

Adjective : Having or exerting influence.

Noun : A person who has influence

seem

Verb : (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

Verb : (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.

influence

Noun : The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

Noun : An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.

Noun : A person or thing exerting such power or action.

devote

Verb : to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter

Verb : to consign over; to doom

Verb : to execrate; to curse

appear

Verb : (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

Verb : (intransitive) To come before the public.

Verb : (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.

interfere

Verb : (intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.

Verb : (intransitive, physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.

Verb : (mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.

constrain

Verb : (transitive) To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.

Verb : (transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.

Verb : (transitive) To reduce a result in response to limited resources.

reaching

Noun : The action of one who reaches; an attempt to grasp something by stretching.

Noun : (nautical) Sailing on a reach, i.e. having the wind on either side and coming from an angle that is larger with respect to the bow than when sailing close-hauled.

reach

Verb : (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

Verb : (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.

Verb : (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.

shape

Verb : (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.

Verb : (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.

Verb : To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.

achievement

Noun : The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.

Noun : A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.

Noun : (heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled; (now especially) a funeral shield: the hatchment.

implication

Noun : (uncountable) The act of implicating.

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being implicated.

Noun : (countable) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.

tamper

Verb : (intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).

Verb : (intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).

Verb : (dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.

intervene

Verb : (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.

Verb : (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.

Verb : (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.

incidence

Noun : The act of something happening; occurrence.

Noun : The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.

Noun : The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.

occur

Verb : (intransitive) To happen or take place.

Verb : (intransitive) To present or offer itself.

Verb : (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.

confront

Verb : (transitive) To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with

Verb : (transitive) To deal with.

Verb : (transitive) To bring someone face to face with something.

violate

Verb : (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).

Verb : (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.

Verb : (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.

infringement

Noun : A violation or breach, as of a law.

Noun : An encroachment on a right, a person, a territory, or a property.

achieve

Verb : (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

Verb : (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.

violation

Noun : The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.

Noun : An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.

Noun : (euphemistic) Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.

attainment

Noun : The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.

Noun : That which is attained, or obtained by exertion.

infringe

Verb : (transitive) Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.

Verb : (intransitive) Break in or encroach on something.

apply

Verb : (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)

Verb : (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

Verb : (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative

affront

Verb : To insult intentionally, especially openly.

Verb : To meet defiantly; to confront.

Verb : (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

impute

Verb : (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

Verb : (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

Verb : (transitive) To take into account.

get hold of

Verb : (transitive) To obtain.

Verb : (transitive) To pick up or grab.

Verb : (transitive) To contact (a person).

endanger

Verb : (transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

disruption

Noun : An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.

Noun : A continuing act of disorder.

Noun : A breaking or bursting apart; a breach.

get

Verb : (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

Verb : (transitive) To receive.

Verb : (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.

effect

Noun : The result or outcome of a cause.

Noun : Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

Noun : Execution; performance; realization; operation.

commit

Verb : (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

Verb : (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

Verb : (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

pertain

Verb : (intransitive) To belong to or be a part of; be an adjunct, attribute, or accessory of.

Verb : (intransitive) To relate, to refer, be relevant to.

Verb : (intransitive) To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable.

take

Verb : (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

Verb : (transitive) To seize or capture.

Verb : (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

relate

Verb : (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.

Verb : (transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).

Verb : (intransitive) To have a connection.

offend

Verb : (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.

Verb : (intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.

Verb : (transitive) To physically harm, pain.

address

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.

encroach

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate

Verb : (intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory

Verb : (intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits

cause

Noun : (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.

Noun : (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason.

Noun : (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.

jeopardize

Verb : (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

suffer

Verb : (intransitive) To undergo hardship.

Verb : (intransitive) To feel pain.

Verb : (intransitive) To become worse.

have

Verb : (transitive) To possess, own.

Verb : (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

Verb : (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

vary

Verb : (transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter.

Verb : (transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.

Verb : (intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.

expend

Verb : (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource)

bedevil

Verb : To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.

Verb : To perplex or bewilder.

Verb : (originally) To possess (someone's mind).

receive

Verb : To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.

Verb : (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.

Verb : To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.

detract

Verb : (intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.

Verb : (transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.

disturb

Verb : (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.

Verb : (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.

Verb : (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.

restrict

Verb : To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine

Verb : (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.

threaten

Verb : To make a threat against someone; to use threats.

Verb : To menace, or be dangerous.

Verb : To portend, or give a warning of.

distort

Verb : (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.

Verb : (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.

Verb : (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of

inhibit

Verb : (transitive) To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.

Verb : (Philippines) To recuse.

frustrate

Verb : (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.

Verb : (transitive) To hinder or thwart.

Verb : (transitive) To cause stress or annoyance.

amend

Verb : (transitive) To make better; improve.

Verb : (intransitive) To become better.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).

limit

Verb : (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

Verb : (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.

Verb : (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

shame

Verb : (transitive) To cause to feel shame.

Verb : (transitive) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.

Verb : (transitive) To denounce as having done something shameful; to criticize with the intent or effect of causing a feeling of shame.

alter

Verb : (transitive) To change the form or structure of.

Verb : (intransitive) To become different.

Verb : (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.

disrupt

Verb : (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.

Verb : (transitive) To interrupt or impede.

Verb : (transitive) To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.

embarrass

Verb : (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.

Verb : (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.

Verb : (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.

modify

Verb : (transitive) To change part of.

Verb : (intransitive) To be or become modified.

Verb : (transitive) To set bounds to; to moderate.

hinder

Verb : (transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To cause harm.

undermine

Verb : To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.

Verb : (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.

Verb : To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.

contribute

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

change

Verb : (intransitive) To become something different.

Verb : (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.

Verb : (transitive) To replace.

impede

Verb : (transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.

upset

Verb : (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

Verb : (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

Verb : (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).

reduce

Verb : (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

Verb : (intransitive) To lose weight.

Verb : (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

attack

Verb : (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.

Verb : (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).

Verb : (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.

put

Verb : To place something somewhere.

Verb : To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

Verb : (finance) To exercise a put option.

afflict

Verb : (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.

Verb : (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

Verb : (obsolete) To make low or humble.

make

Verb : (transitive) To create.

Verb : To build, construct, produce, or originate.

Verb : To write or compose.

include

Verb : To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

Verb : To consider as part of something; to comprehend.

Verb : (obsolete) To enclose, confine.

prejudice

Verb : (transitive) To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To cause prejudice in; to bias the mind of.

diminish

Verb : (transitive) To make smaller.

Verb : (intransitive) To become less or smaller.

Verb : (transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).

unsettle

Verb : To make upset or uncomfortable

Verb : To bring into disorder or disarray

prevent

Verb : (transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).

Verb : (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.

obstruct

Verb : To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.

Verb : To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.

Verb : To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.

hurt

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

Verb : (intransitive, stative) To be painful.

damage

Noun : Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

Noun : (slang) Cost or expense.

Verb : (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

degrade

Verb : (transitive) To lower in value or social position.

Verb : (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.

Verb : (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

harm

Noun : Physical injury; hurt; damage.

Noun : Emotional or figurative hurt.

Noun : Detriment; misfortune.

prejudge

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To form a judgment of (something) in advance.

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