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CONTENT RELATED TO AFFIX
Affixes Explained: Prefixes, Suffixes, And Combining Forms
Learn about different forms of affixes and what they mean. See examples of suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms commonly used in the English language.
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Conny stepped smilingly forward, and proceeded to affix the band around the vicar's massive throat.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Run a narrow velvet through the holes of the third row and affix wider velvet ends, or chenille tassels to each extremity.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY
Twelve different works he had before written and published, and all without the affix of his name.
LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACH
Pitt proposed to provide for the royal assent by placing the great seal in a commission with authority to affix it to the bill.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNT
Under each word the force of the prefix is usually given, though not the affix.
It is wrong, certainly, to treat ever as an affix, and to mistake the first two words of "What ever are you doing?"
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHER
Similarly, his remark on the "peculiar misuse of the affix ever, as in saying 'Whatever are you doing?'"
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHER
In such cases the pitch is merely inherent in the radical element or affix, as any vowel or consonant might be.
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Note that the plural affix immediately follows the radical element (ya-), disconnecting it from the local element (-hau-).
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The affix vitch signifies son of: Sviatoslavitch—son of Sviatoslav.
THE RISE OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIREHECTOR H. MUNRO
WORDS RELATED TO AFFIX
- affix
- annex
- ante
- append
- augment
- beef up
- boost
- build up
- charge up
- continue
- cue in
- figure in
- flesh out
- heat up
- hike
- hike up
- hitch on
- hook on
- hook up with
- include
- jack up
- jazz up
- join together
- pad
- parlay
- piggyback
- plug into
- pour it on
- reply
- run up
- say further
- slap on
- snowball
- soup up
- speed up
- spike
- step up
- supplement
- sweeten
- tack on
- tag
- affix
- annex
- ante
- append
- augment
- beef up
- boost
- build up
- charge up
- continue
- cue in
- figure in
- flesh out
- heat up
- hike
- hike up
- hitch on
- hook on
- hook up with
- include
- jack up
- jazz up
- join together
- pad
- parlay
- piggyback
- plug into
- pour it on
- reply
- run up
- say further
- slap on
- snowball
- soup up
- speed up
- spike
- step up
- supplement
- sweeten
- tack on
- tag
- affix
- annex
- ante
- append
- augment
- beef up
- boost
- build up
- charge up
- continue
- cue in
- figure in
- flesh out
- heat up
- hike
- hike up
- hitch on
- hook on
- hook up with
- include
- jack up
- jazz up
- join together
- pad
- parlay
- piggyback
- plug into
- pour it on
- reply
- run up
- say further
- slap on
- snowball
- soup up
- speed up
- spike
- step up
- supplement
- sweeten
- tack on
- tag
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.