Affect and Wear

Affect

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

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

Wear

Wear verb - To use up all the physical energy of.

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

Nearby Words: weary, wearing, weariness, wearable, wearer

Common collocations

clothes affect clothes wear clothes
clothing affect clothing wear clothing
time affect time wear time

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Demon's Souls Purely Aesthetic Gender: Gender doesn't affect base stats; though it does affect which armor the player can wear.
  • Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Several of Cardigan's officers affect a bizarre accent where they pronounce R's as W's (for instance, noting that Russians wear "gwey" instead of "grey").
  • Comic Book / Empowered Chekhov's Skill: Emp's embarrassing and apparently useless parlor trick of turning her suit invisible is demonstrated in a one-off story from the first volume (she is not affected, cannot wear anything over or under it, and was trying to affect only her mask instead of everything but).
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