Affect: alternatives and connections

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

Affect is usually a verb meaning influence; effect is usually a noun meaning result.

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

Usually a noun meaning a result.

To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.

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To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.

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It.

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To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

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To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

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A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.

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To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…

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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

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The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility;…

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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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See Color.

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To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

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Mixed; confounded.

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That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

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To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

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To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

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Distorted; misshapen.

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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

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To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

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To deposit in the grave; to bury.

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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…

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To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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It.

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To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

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The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of t…

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To make drunk; to intoxicate.

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Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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Dyed with grain, or kermes.

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To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.

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Intoxicated.

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A turn. [Only in phrase.]

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A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the faeces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the…

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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.

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A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.

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To make sad.

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An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

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Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.

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To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the…

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To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities…

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Alt. of Tranquillize

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To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotio…

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.

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To relieve from a strain; to relax.

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To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

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To set up; to put upright.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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To strike or hit suddenly, especially with a burst of energy

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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To carry or send back.

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To bring back; to restore.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.

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Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.

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Tending to affect; affecting.

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Tending to affect; affecting.

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Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…

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Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…

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The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

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The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

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The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what…

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The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what…

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Trial, as a test or experiment.

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.

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To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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