Affect and Stay

Opposite meaning words

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

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Stay is an antonym for affect in influence topic.

Stay verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.

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Affect is an antonym for stay.

Nearby Words: stayed, staying

person	affect person	stay person
party	affect party	stay party
character	affect character	stay character
range	affect range	stay range
Other words: time, way, level, world, game, anyone, city, powers, enemies.

Played with in Everworld—David and the other guys often try to convince April to stay out of the fighting (even against Hel, whose powers mainly affect men).

Source: Stay in the Kitchen
With its constant reboots and a need to always stay fresh, it's a given that this would heavily affect Transformers.

Source: Era-Specific Personality
Maybe justified by the fact they're all tank-like vehicles, but you can stay underwater indefinitely, and all it does is affect your forward motion.

Source: Super Not-Drowning Skills

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