reaffect

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ affect.

Verb

reaffect (third-person singular simple present reaffects, present participle reaffecting, simple past and past participle reaffected)

1. To affect again.
   • 1852, The Evangelical Review - Volume 3, page 508:

     While it is necessary to bear in mind the distinction between man's moral and intellectual nature, yet these natures constantly affect and reaffect each other.

   • 1966, Political Opinion and Electorial Behavior, page 49:

     But the calculation of these two forces is not an easy problem, because the newspaper appeal, as we have shown, may affect the attitudes of the citizens, and the change thus produced may in turn reaffect the newspaper editor, this change again further influencing the citizens.

   • 1975, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Criteria for Developing Pollution Abatement Programs for Inactive and Abandoned Mine Sites, page 2-37:

     A method, however, of achieving nuch the same results is to attempt to persuade the license applicant to reaffect areas adjacent to or near the site for which the applicant seeks license.

   • 1984, Samuel N. Luoma, Introduction to Environmental Issues, page 238:

     A change in one part of the system may trigger a change in another component, the feedback from which might reaffect the original component.

Anagrams

• fact free, affecter, fact-free