Affect and Refer

Affect

Affect verb - To be the business or affair of.

Usage example: fortunately, hurricane season doesn't affect the West Coast

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Antonyms for Affect

Refer and affect are semantically related in relate topic. In some cases you can use "Refer" instead a verb "Affect".

Nearby Words: affected, affection, affectation, affecting, affective

Refer

Refer verb - To have a relation or connection.

Usage example: I don't think that rule of play refers to this particular situation

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Antonyms for Refer

Affect and refer are semantically related in relate topic. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Refer", if it concerns topics such as apply to.

Nearby Words: reference, referred, referring, referral, referable

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Common collocations

person	affect person	refer person
people	affect people	refer people
relationship	affect relationship	refer relationship
time	affect time	refer time
Other words: way, characters, everyone.

Both words in one sentence

It can refer to the metaphorical wire that connects Baltimore citizens of all walks of life, thus ensuring that one group's actions always affect the other.

Source: Series / The Wire
It doesn't affect the game, and the games don't refer to them using any pronouns.

Source: Ambiguous Gender
There's no real affect on anything to this—characters hardly ever refer to you by gender, even!

Source: Purely Aesthetic Gender

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