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affecting

 
Adjective affecting has 1 sense
  1. affecting, poignant, touching - arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"
    Antonym: unmoving (indirect, via moving)
Verb affect has 5 senses
  1. affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
    --1 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. affect - act physically on; have an effect upon
    --2 is one way to
    change, alter, modify
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  3. involve, affect, regard - connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
    --3 is one way to refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  4. feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble - make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
    --4 is one way to misrepresent, belie
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
    Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
  5. affect, impress, move, strike - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
    Derived form: noun affect1
    Sample sentences:
    The bad news will affect him
    The good news will affect her
affectations affecte affected affected predicate affected role affectedly affectedly affectedness affecting affectingly affection, affection affection affectional affectionate affectionate poems affectionate word

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