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side-affect

side-affect is the misspelling of side-effect.

Meaning of side-effect

Verb

side-effect (third-person singular simple present side-effects, present participle side-effecting, simple past and past participle side-effected)

  1. (transitive) To alter as a side effect.
    • Furthermore, we are on the look-out for pre-conditions for good therapy - so as to prevent the unintended bad therapy: but our efforts are duly side-effected by lack of control over such preconditions.1980, W. de Moor, H. R. Wijngaarden, Psychotherapy, research and training, page 147

Questions about side-affect

What is side-affect the misspelling of?
Side-affect is the misspelling of side-effect.

Words near side-affect in the dictionary

  1. side wheeler
  2. side wheelers
  3. side whiskers
  4. side with
  5. Side X
  6. side-affect
  7. side-bet
  8. side-bets
  9. side-bitch
  10. side-bitches
  11. side-blotched lizard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: side-affect (page history and authors); side-effect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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