influence

Meaning

1. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
2. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
3. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
4. An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
5. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
6. Electrostatic induction.

affect

power

appeal to

have an effect on

exert influence

be reduced

change into

have an impact on

affect emotionally

begin to work

have an influence

have influence

convert into

someone to trust

work on someone

put pressure

be animate

pull the wool over someone’s eyes

be influential in

have a repercussion

weight with

have an influence in

impinge upon

persuade somebody to believe

react on

convert to

Frequency

Hyphenated as

in‧flu‧ence

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪn.flu.əns/

From Middle English influence, from Old French influence (“emanation from the stars affecting one's fate”), from Medieval Latin īnfluentia, from Latin īnfluēns (“flowing in”), present active participle of īnfluō (“flow into”), from in- (“in-”) + fluō (“flow”). Doublet of influenza and inflood.

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