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Affects Affected Make Feel Strong Emotion Sadness Pity

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If something or someone a______ you, they make you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity .If something or someone affects you, they make you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity .
Her experience of the last few hours has deeply affected her.
Gregor loved his sister, and her loss clearly still affects him.
word affect
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If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
Nicotine adversely affects the functioning of the heart and arteries.
More than seven million people have been affected by drought.
...the worst-affected areas of Somalia.
If a disease affects someone, it causes them to become ill .
Arthritis is a crippling disease which affects people all over the world.
If something or someone affects you, they make you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity .
Her experience of the last few hours has deeply affected her.
Gregor loved his sister, and her loss clearly still affects him.
If you affect a particular characteristic or way of behaving, you pretend that it is genuine, or natural for you.
He listened to them, affecting an amused interest.
Ms. Redgrave affects a heavy Italian accent.
inflections affectsaffectingaffected
cefr-level A2

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