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SYLLABICATION:af·fect
PRONUNCIATION:  -fkt
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: af·fect·ed, af·fect·ing, af·fects
1. To put on a false show of; simulate: affected a British accent. 2a. To have or show a liking for: affects dramatic clothes. b. Archaic To fancy; love. 3. To tend to by nature; tend to assume: a substance that affects crystalline form. 4. To imitate; copy: “Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language” (Ben Jonson).
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English affecten, from Latin affectre, to strive after, frequentative of afficere, affect-, to affect, influence. See affect1.
OTHER FORMS:af·fecter —NOUN
 
 
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