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Affected   /əfˈɛktəd/  /əfˈɛktɪd/   Listen
Affected

adjective
1.
Acted upon; influenced.
2.
Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression.  Synonym: unnatural.
3.
Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion.  Synonyms: moved, stirred, touched.  "Very touched by the stranger's kindness"


Affect

verb
(past & past part. affected; pres. part. affecting)
1.
Have an effect upon.  Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on.
2.
Act physically on; have an effect upon.
3.
Connect closely and often incriminatingly.  Synonyms: involve, regard.
4.
Make believe with the intent to deceive.  Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham.  "He shammed a headache"
5.
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.  Synonyms: impress, move, strike.  "This behavior struck me as odd"



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"Affected" Quotes from Famous Books



... emotion, but in its due order. One should be affected in the dining-room first, and then in the hall. And so at her summons they followed her into the long, low, quaint room in which this curious couple had lived their everyday life. Little of the furniture was left, and the walls were lined with collected pictures ...
— A Duet • A. Conan Doyle
... instead of opinion, "the most affected assumption" Here there is more question of assumption than of opinion. If angenommen [affected] sounds too much like Anmassung [assumption], let us put ...
— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: - Years of Travel as a Virtuoso" • Franz Liszt; Letters assembled by La Mara and translated
... supposed, that the congregation assembled that day with minds awfully solemnized, and altogether in a condition to be deeply affected by the services. A respectable person always prominently noticeable for her devout participation in the worship of the sanctuary, and a member of the church, had, on Monday, after a public examination, been committed to prison, and was there in irons, waiting to be tried for her life for the blackest ...
— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham
... burst of rhymed eloquence she rolled off at least a dozen four-line stanzas on Hope and its spiritual power. Some one else among the audience gave the subject of cremation, and forthwith the lady descanted with terrific force on funeral pyres and the horrors of Gehenna; whilst a male performer affected to personate sundry well-known dead orators of past days (for as the inspirers were supposed to be disembodied spirits no living orators were allowable), and he certainly imitated both voices and topics with singular success. ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... deposits out in the hills affected these watches," continued Astro, "the same way they affected the electronic instruments on the ...
— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell


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