affect
the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms:
affectional
• Hypernyms:
feeling
1. have an effect upon (Freq. 43)
- Will the new rules affect me?
• Syn:
impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
• Derivationally related forms:
impact (for: impact)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
strike a blow, repercuss, tell on, redound, stimulate,
excite, process, treat, hydrolize, hydrolise, tinge,
color, colour, distort, queer, expose, scupper,
endanger, peril, hit, strike, subject, trouble,
put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother,
influence, act upon, work, slam-dunk
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. act physically on;
have an effect upon (Freq. 11)
- the medicine affects my heart rate
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
attack, ulcerate, sedate, calm, tranquilize,
tranquillize, tranquillise, stimulate, arouse, brace, energize,
energise, perk up, tense, strain, tense up, relax,
unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed, cramp,
jaundice, register, intoxicate, soak, inebriate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. connect closely and often incriminatingly (Freq. 4)
- This new ruling affects your business
• Syn:
involve, regard
• Derivationally related forms:
regard (for: regard), involvement (for: involve)
• Hypernyms:
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to,
bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with
• Hyponyms:
implicate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
4. make believe with the intent to deceive (Freq. 4)
- He feigned that he was ill
- He shammed a headache
• Syn:
feign, sham, pretend, dissemble
• Derivationally related forms:
dissembler (for: dissemble), dissembling (for: dissemble), pretender (for: pretend), pretense (for: pretend), pretending (for: pretend), sham (for: sham), shammer (for: sham), feigning (for: feign)
• Hypernyms:
misrepresent, belie
• Hyponyms:
play possum, take a dive, talk through one's hat, bullshit, bull,
fake, mouth
• Verb Group:
make, pretend, make believe
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
5. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- This child impressed me as unusually mature
- This behavior struck me as odd
• Syn:
impress, move, strike
• Derivationally related forms:
impressible (for: impress), impressive (for: impress), affective
• Hyponyms:
infect, surprise, impress, ingrain, instill,
awaken, engrave, strike dumb, zap, jar, hit home,
strike home, strike a chord, strike a note, smite, cloud, pierce,
sweep away, sweep off, disturb, upset, trouble, touch,
stir, move, sadden, alienate
• Verb Group:
hit, strike, come to, motivate, actuate,
propel, move, prompt, incite
• Cause:
feel, experience
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will affect him
- The good news will affect her
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