Affect and Knock

Affect

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

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Knock and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Knock" with "Affect", this verbs are similar.

Knock verb - To come into usually forceful contact with something.

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Affect and knock are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Knock".

Nearby Words: knocked, knockout, knockdown, knocking, knocker

person	affect person	knock person
ability	affect ability	knock ability
party	affect party	knock party
character	affect character	knock character
Other words: people, body, someone, number, time, characters, damage, target, anyone, player, everyone, humans, units, enemies, zombies.

You then have to knock a couple of the surrounding Zingers out and spit eggs at him before they respawn (how many you knock out doesn't affect respawn speed, though).

Source: Flunky Boss
Critical Existence Failure: Apart from the momentary knock-back that occurs when getting shot, damage to your life bar doesn't affect your ability to run and fight.

Source: Video Game / Counter-Strike
The idea was to knock Duo out so he could affect his own escape later, while Heero pretended to be KO'd and made a break for it when the soldiers were distracted by talking to Trowa, who pretended he captured the pair.

Source: Tap on the Head

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