Affect synonyms | Another word for affect

1. influence

• Act on
• Alter
• Attack
• Change
• Condition
• Control
• Decide
• Determine
• Exert influence on
• Form
• Govern
• Guide
• Have an effect on
• Have an impact on
• Hit
• Impact on
• Infect
• Influence
• Modify
• Shape
• Strike at
• Strike
• Sway
• Take hold of
• Touch
• Transform
• Work on
• Bias

2. upset

• Agitate
• Agonizing
• Bowl over
• Damage
• Devastate
• Distress
• Distressing
• Disturb
• Disturbing
• Emotional
• Emotive
• Faze
• Get to
• Grieve
• Harrowing
• Heart-rending
• Heart-warming
• Heartbreaking
• Hit hard
• Hurt
• Impressive
• Knock back
• Knock for six
• Make an impression on
• Move
• Moving
• Overwhelm
• Pain
• Painful
• Pathetic
• Perturb
• Piteous
• Pitiful
• Plaintive
• Poignant
• Powerful
• Sad
• Sadden
• Saddening
• Shake up
• Shake
• Soul-stirring
• Stir
• Stirring
• Tear-jerking
• Telling
• Throw
• Touch
• Touching
• Tragic
• Trouble
• Tug at someone's heartstrings
• Uplifting
• Upset
• Upsetting
• Haunting

3. pretend

• Counterfeit
• Fabricate
• Fake
• Feign
• Give the appearance of
• Go through the motions of
• Make a pretence of
• Make a show of
• Play at
• Pretend
• Put on
• Sham
• Simulate
• Make like

4. assume

• Adopt
• Assume
• Embrace
• Have a liking for
• Like
• Put on
• Take on
• Espouse