²affect

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of AFFECT

to present a false appearance of <she affected complete unawareness that we were talking about her, though she must have overheard>

Synonyms act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, pass (for), pretend, profess, put on, sham, simulate

Related Words dissimulate, impersonate, let on, masquerade, play, playact, pose; forge, imitate; camouflage, conceal, disguise, mask; feint; malinger

to go to or spend time in often <a power couple known to affect all the fancy parties in town>

Synonyms affect, habituate, hang (at), haunt, resort (to), visit

Related Words patronize; attend, take in; infest, invade, overrun, swarm; call (on or upon), drop by, drop in, pop (in), run (in), stop (in or by); camp (out in), sojourn (at), stay (at), stop (over), tarry (in)

Near Antonyms dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, shake

Antonyms avoid, shun

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