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What is the verb for affection?

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affect
  1. (transitive) To influence or alter.
  2. (transitive) To move to emotion.
  3. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
  4. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
  5. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  6. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Our son claims that romantic comedies don't affect him in the least.”
      “These affect an air of tired superiority in a world of unoriginal humorists.”
      “Rosalinda, who was also invited to the party, arrives there, affecting the airs of a Hungarian countess.”
affect
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain. [15th-19th c.]
  2. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of. [from 16th c.]
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose. [from 16th c.]
  4. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of. [from 16th c.]
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Our son claims that romantic comedies don't affect him in the least.”
      “These affect an air of tired superiority in a world of unoriginal humorists.”
      “Rosalinda, who was also invited to the party, arrives there, affecting the airs of a Hungarian countess.”
affectionate
  1. (rare) To show affection to; to have affection for.
  2. (obsolete, reflexive) To emotionally attach (oneself) to.
affection
  1. to feel an affection, emotion or love for.
affectioned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of affection
affected
affecting
affectionates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affectionate
affections
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affection
affectionated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of affectionate
affects
affecteth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of affect
affectest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of affect
affectionating
  1. present participle of affectionate
affectioning
  1. present participle of affection
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