Affect and Drive

Affect

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

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Drive and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Drive" instead the word "Affect" as a verb or a noun.

Drive verb - To urge, push, or force onward.

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Affect and drive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead the word "Drive" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

person	affect person	drive person
character	affect character	drive character
people	affect people	drive people
someone	affect someone	drive someone
Other words: plot, time, way, characters, story, actions, anyone, player, everyone, humans, enemies, animals.

Joker is able to "befriend" her because he's too crazy for it to affect him, and puts her on TV to drive as many people possible insane.

Source: Insanity Immunity
Plot Coupon That Does Something: The canisters and Geneforges that frequently drive NPCs insane also affect you.

Source: Video Game / Geneforge
This doesn't affect game mechanics, but it does drive the storyline; the Overlord is trying to recover various artefacts with which to reverse the process before his body wears out.

Source: Cast from Lifespan

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