Affect
Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Push
Push verb - To apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Synchronization: Most apparent in Tamers, where the damage that Digimon take will occasionally visibly affect and push around the Digimon's partner.
Source: Franchise / Digimon -
It won't affect lasers, projectiles that don't have any iron in them, or the gamma rays from a nuclear blast, and it isn't powerful enough to push big projectiles aside even if they are made out of iron.
Source: Literature / The Pentagon War
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