Affect and Tell

Affect

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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Tell and affect are semantically related In some cases you can use "Tell" instead a verb "Affect".

Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.

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Affect and tell are semantically related in take its toll on topic. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Tell".

Nearby Words: telling, teller

character	affect character	tell character
people	affect people	tell people
children	affect children	tell children
someone	affect someone	tell someone
Other words: rest, future, time, way, characters, world, story, anyone, player, everyone, humans.

Unreliable Narrator: The story is told alternately by Silver and Jasz, so differences in their memories and how they tell the story affect, well, how the story is told.

Source: Webcomic / Endof Infinity
The only way to tell anything was happening was to be a sensor type that could feel the chakra trying to affect you, and even then it wasn't a given thing.

Source: Paranoia Fuel / Anime and Manga
While these are all numerical values, you can never see said numbers, and the game doesn't bother to tell you how they affect your monster—or how various items affect those stats.

Source: Guide Dang It / Monster Rancher

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