Affect
Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Fool
Fool verb - To cause to believe what is untrue.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Inverted in Serenity, when Mal sells a nerve-cluster blow that doesn't actually affect him in order to fool his opponent.
Source: No Sell - At school, they attempt to affect each other's voice in order to fool people.
Source: Larynx Dissonance - On Invader Zim, Tak has Hypnotic Eyes that don't affect Dib or Gaz; she comments that this is because they're "smarter than the rest." It also doesn't do anything to Zim or GIR; in the latter case especially, it might be a case of Too Dumb to Fool.
Source: Immune to Mind Control
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Fool and Affect. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/affect/fool
Affect & Fool. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/affect/fool>.
Fool or Affect. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/affect/fool.
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