affect > define

Have an effect upon.
- usage: "Will the new rules affect me"
- synonyms: impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
Act physically on; have an effect upon.
- usage: "the medicine affects my heart rate"
Connect closely and often incriminatingly.
- usage: "This new ruling affects your business"
- synonyms: involve, regard
Make believe with the intent to deceive.
- usage: "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
- synonyms: feign, sham, pretend, dissemble
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.
- usage: "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
- synonyms: impress, move, strike

(v.t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
(v.t.) To love; to regard with affection.
(v.t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
(v.t.) To assign; to appoint.
(v.t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
(n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
(v.t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
(v.t.) To dispose or incline.
(v.t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
(v.t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
(n.) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary