Affect and Contain

Affect

Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.

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Contain and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Contain" instead a verb "Affect".

Contain verb - To have within.

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Affect and contain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Contain".

Nearby Words: container, containing, containment, containable

people	affect people	contain people
number	affect number	contain number
characters	affect characters	contain characters
story	affect story	contain story
Other words: objects, powers, enemies, creatures.

It also helps that he grows to care for the girls which contain the Weiss, because the Weiss will severely affect the girls in some way and will be reborn as the girl's first child.

Source: Resigned to the Call
The strong winds will even affect the trajectory of bullets and thrown grenades, and the wind flares contain deadly "storm walls", Mother Nature's answer to the Hammer of Dawn.

Source: Video Game / Gears of War
Poppy-seed muffins and cakes do contain trace amounts of opium; not enough to affect the human body, but just barely enough to make a person test positive on a drug test.

Source: Mistaken for Junkie

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