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Affected vs Bestead - What's the difference?

affected | bestead |

As adjectives the difference between affected and bestead

is that affected is influenced or changed by something while bestead is (archaic) placed (in a given situation); beset.

As verbs the difference between affected and bestead

is that affected is (affect) while bestead is to help, assist or bestead can be to take the place of; replace.

As a noun affected

is someone , as by a disease.

affected

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • influenced or changed by something
    • The affected compass was impossible to use, so we got lost.
  • simulated in order to impress
    • He spoke with an affected English accent.
  • Emotionally moved; touched.
  • (algebra, archaic) adfected
    • an affected equation
  • Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation

    • See also

    * affectation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone , as by a disease.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (affect)
    • The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.

    See also

    * effected

    bestead

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Alternative forms

    * bested

    Verb

  • To help, assist.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:even errours and dreames, doe profitably bestead her, as a loyall matter, to bring us unto safetie and contentment.
  • *
  • *1956 , Haïm Hazaz, Mori Sa'id :
  • *:"No, but you must tell me, no matter what; perhaps I may give you good counsel and bestead you in your trouble."
  • To profit; benefit; serve; avail.
  • *1859 , Southern literary messenger: Volume 28:
  • *:With forty sous which remained, he went to a low gambling house, where fortune, or something surer to the skilful practitioner, so well besteaded him that he was able to clothe himself decently preparatory to entering Frascati's, the fashionable hell of Paris—a den of abomination early suppressed on the accession of Louis Philippe to the French throne.
  • *2007 , Miguel De Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life :
  • *:Abstract thought besteads immortality only in order that it may kill me as an individual being with an individual existence, and so make me immortal, pretty much in the same way as that famous physician in one of Holberg's plays,.
    • Synonyms
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    Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take the place of; replace.

    • Etymology 3

    From , later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

    Alternative forms

    *

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Placed (in a given situation); beset.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Jeanie Gould Lincoln, title=An Unwilling Maid, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I was indeed hard bestead , sir," burst in Oliver. " }}
  • (obsolete) Disposed mentally; affected.
    • sorrowfully bested
  • (obsolete) Provided; furnished.

    • Anagrams

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