Affect and Impact

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

Usage example: their son claims that scary movies don't affect him in the least

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Impact is a synonym for affect in influence topic. In some cases you can use "Impact" instead the word "Affect" as a verb or a noun.

Impact verb - Have an effect upon.

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Affect is a synonym for impact. You can use "Affect" instead a verb "Impact".

Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless

ability	affect ability	impact ability
mind	affect mind	impact mind
party	affect party	impact party
life	affect life	impact life
Other words: performance, people, plot, rest, environment, future, way, speed, characters, story, ending, anyone, player, everyone, storyline, lives, stats.

Reality Warper: Dark Matt gains this power after the time skip, but can only affect people based on their karmic impact.

Source: Web Comic / White Dark Life
Scenes where they comment on how important it is to improve their relationship tend to only have a small impact on affect and no or negative influence on mood.

Source: Video Game / Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars
While this doesn't affect him much in Garou: Mark of the Wolves, he gets hit full force by this trope in The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2.

Source: Chick Magnet

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