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affect

English

  1. 🔊 the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
  2. 🔊 act physically on
    “the medicine affects my heart rate”
  3. 🔊 have an effect upon
    “Will the new rules affect me?”
  4. 🔊 have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
    “This child impressed me as unusually mature”
  5. 🔊 connect closely and often incriminatingly
    “This new ruling affects your business”
  6. 🔊 make believe with the intent to deceive
    “He feigned that he was ill”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 conmover to affect, move, touch
  2. 🔊 impactar to affect, to impact (to move to emotion)
  3. 🔊 afectar to affect, to have an effect on, to influence
  4. 🔊 repercutir to affect, to have an effect on, to have an impact on
  5. 🔊 hacer mella to affect, make a dent (to have a profound effect [on])

Similar words

impact bear upon bear on touch on touch feign sham pretend dissemble impress move strike involve regard act act a part act like act on act upon actuate adopt affection affectivity agitate