Affect and Use

Affect

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

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

Use verb - To put into action or service.

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

Nearby Words: useless, useful, used, usefulness, using

ability	affect ability	use ability
character	affect character	use character
body	affect body	use body
time	affect time	use time
Other words: way, characters, voice, skills, powers, abilities.

It also helps that almost all attacks that inflict status effects, or bindings do at least as much damage as your normal attacks, are dirt cheap to use or affect multiple enemies and try to inflict the status effect multiple times over several turns after a single use.

Source: Video Game / Etrian Odyssey
Conditional Powers: It is revealed that Tabitha can only use her magicks, even those that affect material objects, when she is beautiful.

Source: Literature / Delicate Fire
The expansion introduced runes, one-use powerups sometimes left behind by enemies that affect not only the hero picking it up but all surrounding units as well.

Source: Quad Damage

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