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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
affected
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
adversely affected
▪ developments which had adversely affected their business
badly affected
▪ Albania was badly affected by industrial unrest.
seriously affected
▪ A number of bird sanctuaries were seriously affected by the oil spill.
severely affected
▪ The town is already severely affected by aircraft noise.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Antibacterial treatments can take the form of baths, external application to affected areas, injection and oral administration via the food.
▪ Keep doing this until any pain subsides, then cover the affected area and see your doctor.
▪ Worst affected areas were parts of Bishop Auckland, Stanley, and other villages in Weardale.
▪ They were advised to use topical steroids only on severely affected areas of skin, in accordance with our usual practice.
▪ The affected areas look like orange-peel and are cold to the touch.
▪ When dealing with windows, remove all traces of rust and apply a neutralising agent to badly affected areas.
child
▪ Interestingly, only one of the nine families with an affected child had an above average level of emotional trauma.
▪ The unit of evaluation was affected children rather than individual congenital abnormalities.
▪ We chart each separation and see how it affected child.
family
▪ Qualitative measure of satisfaction among affected families.
fish
▪ How long has the tank been set up and how long have the affected fish been in it?
▪ The affected fish had previously been swimming on its head and it spine had become deformed due to its awkward position.
▪ Otherwise, slightly affected fish should be isolated and put into a solution of white spot cure based upon quinine salts.
▪ The affected fish are targeted more accurately.
▪ Even when removed, the growths may return, and any badly affected fish should be painlessly destroyed.
▪ As with lymphocystis, any seriously affected fish should be destroyed.
individual
▪ In the higher liability classes the probability of an affected individual being heterozygous or homozygous for the major allele was about 0.10.
▪ Sickle cell crises are extremely rare but affected individuals should be warned of the potential dangers of severe hypothermia or hypoxia.
▪ Among third degree relatives, the single affected individual gave a prevalence similar to that in the general population.
people
▪ To anyone who didn't live in Birmingham at the time, it's impossible to convey how much they affected people.
▪ The rationalisation affected people and products.
▪ Less affected people will move their head back and push forwards on the stick.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immediately involved/affected/concerned etc
▪ Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state.
▪ Henry's memory, of course, seemed only defective in matters that immediately concerned him.
▪ No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder.
▪ The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.
▪ The hearing is technically in public, though it is very rare for anyone other than those immediately involved to be present.
▪ The problem is to convince those who are not so immediately affected.
▪ Those most immediately affected given support.
▪ We are not immediately concerned whether they are based on off-line, optical discs or on online technology by way of broadband networks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I can't bear him -- he's so loud and affected.
▪ I hate that stupid affected laugh of hers.
▪ She treated her guests with an affected politeness.
▪ That stupid affected laugh of hers really annoys me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even the best of care may not help the worst affected.
▪ However, no residents in affected houses had complained and many had spoken out in favour of the proposals.
▪ Keep doing this until any pain subsides, then cover the affected area and see your doctor.
▪ Nor are the blight years which affected potato crops in about one year in three, in the not so distant past.
▪ Objections are frequently raised by affected personnel, and methods to input documents automatically are thus highly desirable.
▪ The other element which affected royal control was the practice of appointing deputies.
▪ The shake-out of labour after 1979 affected women's employment less than men's, both here and abroad.
▪ Worst affected areas were parts of Bishop Auckland, Stanley, and other villages in Weardale.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affected

Affected \Af*fect"ed\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"[e^]d), p. p. & a.

  1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.]

    His affected Hercules.
    --Chapman.

  2. Inclined; disposed; attached.

    How stand you affected to his wish?
    --Shak.

  3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

    He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd.
    --Shak.

  4. Assumed artificially; not natural.

    Affected coldness and indifference.
    --Addison.

  5. (Alg.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

Affected

Affect \Af*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affected; p. pr. & vb. n. Affecting.] [L. affectus, p. p. of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See Fact.]

  1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

    As might affect the earth with cold heat.
    --Milton.

    The climate affected their health and spirits.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.

    A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

  3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.]

    As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her.
    --Fuller.

  4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.

    For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.
    --Shak.

    Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.
    --Hazlitt.

  5. To dispose or incline.

    Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty.
    --Milton.

  6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.]

    This proud man affects imperial ?way.
    --Dryden.

  7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.

    The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
    --Newton.

  8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.

    Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected.
    --Congreve.

    Thou dost affect my manners.
    --Shak.

  9. To assign; to appoint. [R.]

    One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
    --Thackeray.

    Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
affected

past participle adjective from affect (v.2); 1530s in the now-obsolete sense "favorably disposed" (preserved in disaffected); meaning "artificially displayed" is recorded from 1580s.

Wiktionary
affected
  1. 1 influenced or changed by something 2 simulated in order to impress 3 Emotionally moved; touched. 4 (context algebra archaic English) adfected 5 Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation n. Someone affect#Verb, as by a disease. v

  2. (en-past of: affect)

WordNet
affected
  1. adj. acted upon; influenced [ant: unaffected]

  2. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression [syn: unnatural] [ant: unaffected]

  3. emotionally affected; "very touched by the stranger's kindness" [syn: affected(p), stirred(p), touched(p)]

Usage examples of "affected".

His sight, which had troubled him at intervals, became affected, and a celebrated oculist spoke of abnormality, asymetry of the pupils.

If, however, meat had been placed on the glands of these same tentacles before they had begun to secrete copiously and to absorb, they undoubtedly would have affected the exterior rows.

The glands which had remained in contact for two or three days with the viscid masses were not discoloured, and apparently had absorbed little of the liquefied tissue, or had been little affected by it.

The reds, as a rule, are affected by acids, and, therefore, it is not possible to use an acid bath with Benzopurpurine, Congo red, with the possible exception of the Titan reds and scarlets, Diamine scarlet, Benzo fast scarlet, Purpuramine, which are faster to acetic acid than the other reds of this class of dye-stuffs.

A case is reported on the page before me of a soldier affected with acute inflammation in the chest, who took successively aconite, bryonia, nux vomica, and pulsatilla, and after thirty-eight days of treatment remained without any important change in his disease.

Most of the crew suffered from some degree of nausea while adapting to microgravity, and those especially affected, such as AH Tillman and Alex Dyachkov, are still prone to attacks if they spin around too quickly, or if they find themselves without an absolute reference point.

Darryl Adin and his people had fine warp-capacity vessels, the epitome of private spacecraft technology, but their engines could not produce enough power to break free of the gravitational surges that barely affected a Galaxy-class starship.

The inquest on Gordon resulted in a verdict of suicide without the merciful adjoinder that the balance of his mind had been affected.

Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried him all the way.

One treatment that was administered for nasal catarrh, from which I continued to be affected, caused erosion of the mucous membrane, and destruction of the bony septum which separates the two nostrils.

Though burdened by the giant molecules, his sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands, which were particularly affected in others, were quite indifferent to the asps.

He was received with that affability of manner which was sometimes affected by the Russian monarch.

The joints of the elbow, wrist, ankle, or toes, may, however, be affected with this disease, but we shall speak of it in this connection as affecting only the knee-joint.

When the agriculturists of China struck to obtain a reasonable allowance of electric power for their tillage, Gordelpus affected them with an evil atmosphere, so that they choked and died in thousands.

For one thing, there was a subtle, indefinable sense of limitless antiquity and utter alienage which affected one like a view from the brink of a monstrous abyss of unplumbed blackness - but mostly it was the expression of crazed fear on the puckered, prognathous, half-shielded face.