Definition of affect

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Affect (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually..

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Demure :: Demure (a.) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity..
Joint :: "Joint (a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond..
Frigidly :: Frigidly (adv.) In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble..
Nature :: Nature (n.) Natural affection or reverence.
Affect :: Affect (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
Childcrowing :: Childcrowing (n.) The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
Affectationist :: Affectationist (n.) One who exhibits affectation.
Calenture :: Calenture (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it..
Rheumy :: Rheumy (a.) Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum..
Tone :: Tone (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone..
Nephritical :: Nephritical (a.) Relieving disorders of the kidneys; affecting the kidneys; as, a nephritic medicine..
Decayed :: Decayed (a.) Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman..
Penitent :: Penitent (a.) Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life..
Invade :: Invade (v. t.) To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue..
Sprue :: Spruce (v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up..
Kiby :: Kiby (a.) Affected with kibes.
Apish :: Apish (a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Epigrammatizer :: Epigrammatizer (n.) One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.
Internationalize :: Internationalize (v. t.) To make international; to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic enterprise..
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