effected
pronunciation
How to pronounce effected in British English:
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- Adjective:
- settled securely and unconditionally
Word Origin
- effected (adj.)
- "brought about," past participle adjective from effect (v.). Since early 15c. sometimes used erroneously for affected.
Example
- 1. The changes they effected did not end withtheir deaths , however .
- 2. For all the exchanges are exchanges effected voluntarily by all parties .
- 3. Remarkably , the researchers effected this transformation without altering a single letter of the mouse 's dna .
- 4. This work , peculiar to the whole of europe , effected more ravages in germany than anywhere else .
- 5. It is about how products designed to make our lives a tiny bit simpler have effected huge social and cultural changes .