"affect" Definition

Definitions for the word "affect" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. t.
To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To love; to regard with affection.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To dispose or incline.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To tend to by affinity or disposition.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To assign; to appoint.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v.
1 a produce an effect on. B (of disease etc.) Attack. 2 move emotionally. 3 pretend (affected ignorance). 4 pose as or use for effect (affects the aesthete; affects fancy hats). affecting adj. Affectingly adv. [latin afficio affect- influence]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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