Influence

Definition: Influence

Influence

Noun

1. A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc: "used her parents' influence to get the job".

2. Causing something without any direct or apparent effort.

3. A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking".

4. The effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action".

5. One having power to influence another: "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children".

Verb

1. Have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate".

2. Shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion".

3. Induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "influence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Satire

Dream Interpretation

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Influence

Agency

Causation; instrumentality; influence; action; (voluntary); modus operandi.

Authority

Noun: authority; influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right;Noun: authority; influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right; (title); direction; government; a.

Cause

Spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo, genesis; descent; (paternity); remote cause; influence.

Change

Innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf.

Cunning

Diplomacy, politics; Machiavelism; jobbery, backstairs influence.

Deception

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Importance

Verb: be important; Adjective:, be somebody, be something; import, signify, matter, boot, be an object; carry weight; (influence); make a figure; (repute); be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way, take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade; lie at the root of; deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of regard, be worthy of consideration.

Influence

Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest.

Motive

Persuasibility, persuasibleness; attractability; impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization. influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation; (excitation of feeling); inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice; solicitation; (request); lobbyism; pull.

Influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby.

Necessity

Star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice.

Physical Insensibility

Render insensible. Adjective: anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform. Noun: stupefy, stun.

Power

Ability; ableness; Adjective: competency; efficacy; efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill) ; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence.

Precedence

Verb: precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have the pas; set the fashion; (influence); open the ball; take precedence, have precedence; have the start; (get before).

Property

Territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence.

Crosswords: Influence

French (action, clout, exertion, induction, influence, leverage, potency, standing, weight, weightiness).

Hundreds of senators are now under the influence of a Sith lord called Darth Sidious (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

It's the religious influence, and a pain in the ass. Now to me it makes no sense (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

My dear Ricky, you overestimate the influence of the Gestapo (Casablanca; writing credit: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play 'Everybody Comes to Rick's' by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.)

They were a huge influence on the Beatles (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

I had a little influence. As you know, that can help (And Then There Were None; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Erich Kröhnke)

Do's and don'ts influence wills and won'ts. (references; author: unknown)

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. (references; author: unknown)

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Love's Influence (1922)

Under the Influence (1918)

A Mother's Influence (1916)

Influence of the Unknown (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists: Aspects of a Poetic Influence (reference)

• You and the New World Order: How You Can Influence the Alarming and Growing International and Domestic Problems (reference)

• Influence of abyssal circulation on sedimentary accumulations in space and time (reference)

• The influence of elevator movement on the normal accelerations experienced by a transport aircraft in moderate turbulence (reference)

• Influence of Accentuation on French Word Order (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Artist And Influence (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Woman Under the Influence (reference)

• Bad Influence (reference)

• Body of Influence 2 (reference)

• Whole Notes: Stories Behind the Classics - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Under the Influence (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bach & Italian Influence (reference)

• Under the Influence (reference)

• Influence (reference)

• The Anxiety of Influence Sessions EP (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown are groups of people biking. The setting is summer and in the country. This is meant to indicate that one's lifestyle and environment can influence one's health status. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

This illustration with and without text, explains how a normal cell becomes a cancer cell. An oncogene in a normal cell appears to regulate and influence cell growth and division. When a cancer causing agent affects a cell's DNA and the oncogene is activated, a cancer cell develops. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist).

Students observing a drainage project and its influence on mosquito populations during a mosquito control training course. Credit: CDC.

Andy Allen measuring distance from mark on tide staff to location on pier top. Longview is close to the end of tidal influence in the Columbia River, being 66 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Upper Spring Creek above the influence of Iron Mountain Mine; note the normal riparian vegetation. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Upper Boulder Creek, above the influence of Iron Mountain Mine. Note the thick riparian vegetation above the influence of the mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Schematic representation of the possible influence of b-endorphin (b-EP) on dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Credit: NIAA.

Photograph by M. James Slack, April 1934. (Reproduction Number: HABS NM,31-ACOM,1-32) Visited for the first time by Europeans in 1540, Acoma Pueblo is one of the oldest inhabited villages in the U.S. Located on top of a 357-foot rock mesa, the pueblo was the setting for many confrontations between European colonizers and the Acoma people, including a horrible massacre in 1599 by the Spanish soldiers who controlled the area. These flat-roofed houses made of adobe brick--a Spanish technique--show the Spanish influence on local building traditions. Credit: Library of Congress.

[The influence of the zodiac signs on the human body]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Anthony Perkins plays a sensitive young man too long under his mother's influence in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," opening June 16 at the DeMille and the Baronet Theatres. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is the soul that gives form, life, and unity to the common-wealth: from hence the several members have their mutual influence, sympathy, and connexion: and therefore, when the legislative is broken, or dissolved, dissolution and death follows: for the essence and union of the society consisting in having one will, the legislative, when once established by the majority, has the declaring, and as it were keeping of that will. (Second Treatise of Government)

And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. (reference)

Germany undertakes neither to impose nor to maintain any control over transmigration traffic through her territories beyond measures necessary to ensure that passengers are bona fide in transit; nor to allow any shipping company or any other private body, corporation or person interested in the traffic to take any part whatever in, or to exercise any direct or indirect influence over, any administrative service that may be necessary for this purpose. (reference)

If the Western Democracies stand together in strict adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter, their influence for furthering those principles will be immense and no one is likely to molest them. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm

And then I think he pointed out that God can only influence Nature by influencing Human Wills

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge

This might be pride, but was so like humility, that it produced all the softening influence of the latter quality on the public mind

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

But no vision of trim front gardens or of kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence upon him now.

Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Psychological factors may also influence eating habits. (references)

Nursing skill in access use has a major influence on dialysis success. (references)

Genes also influence the potential array of T-cell receptors present on T cells. (references)

Business

Occasionally payment terms also influence the decision. (references)

The greatest concentration of official influence is in television. (references)

Other divisions of France Telecom also influence the BRX - DAL's decisions. (references)

Children

Gambia

The enrollment of girls is low particularly in rural areas where a combination of poverty and sociocultural factors influence parents' decisions not to send girls to school. (references)

Belarus

As part of the Lukashenka regime's efforts to promote a union with Russia and to reduce the influence of opposition movements, the authorities continued to discourage the promotion of, or the teaching of, students in the Belarusian language by limiting the availability of early childhood education in Belarusian. (references)

Iceland

The Office of the Children's Ombudsman in the Prime Minister's Office has a mandate to protect children's rights, interests, and welfare by, among other things, exerting influence on legislation, government decisions, and public attitudes and has done so. The government-funded Agency for Child Protection coordinates the work of 56 committees around the country that are responsible for managing child protection issues (for example, adoption and foster care) in their local areas. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guatemala

The daily ran a series on corruption and influence peddling by Rabbe. (references)

Greece

The Orthodox Church wields significant political and economic influence. (references)

Kazakhstan

The extent of government influence over mass media is not clearly defined. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Such persons have much influence. (references)

Spain

Regional characteristics influence buying patterns. (references)

Nicaragua

Abuses of influence pervade all branches of government. (references)

Human Rights

Vietnam

Young educated judges have little influence within the system. (references)

Nicaragua

Judges appeared susceptible to corruption and political influence. (references)

Madagascar

The High Constitutional Court is subject to the President's influence. (references)

Indigenous People

India

In Meghalaya tribal chiefs still wield influence in certain villages. (references)

Bangladesh

Tribal people have had a marginal ability to influence decisions concerning the use of their lands. (references)

Congo

Many never have heard of the concept of voting and had minimal ability to influence government decisions affecting their interests. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

Most of the racist violence was committed by youths often under the influence of alcohol. (references)

Romania

Due to its substantial influence, few politicians dare to sponsor bills and measures that would oppose the Orthodox Church. (references)

Poland

Public concern persisted regarding the growth of groups perceived to be sects and the influence of nonmainstream religious groups. (references)

Political Economy

Thailand

Their influence in politics has been diminishing. (references)

Micronesia

Traditional leaders retain considerable influence. (references)

Kenya

Internal politics influence the Kenyan business climate. (references)

Political Rights

Kuwait

Women have little opportunity to influence government. (references)

China

However, minorities hold few senior Party or government positions of significant influence. (references)

Cambodia

Although growing in influence, the legislature remained weak in comparison with the executive branch. (references)

Trade

Singapore

The MAS engages in limited money market operations to influence interest rates and ensure adequate liquidity in the banking system. (references)

Hungary

Furthermore, the absence of a prior notice or review period often leaves companies with little opportunity to influence the outcome or plan ahead. (references)

Guyana

This long-awaited reorganization began in earnest in January 2000. However, the new organization's influence in reforming Guyana's customs systems remains to be seen. (references)

Travel

Norway

Roadblocks for checks of drivers under the influence of alcohol are frequent, and submission to a breathalyzer test is mandatory. (references)

Women

China

Women's economic and political influence has increased. (references)

Malaysia

The cultural and religious traditions of the major ethnic groups also heavily influence the condition of women in society. (references)

Worker Rights

New Zealand

Unions influence legislation and government policy. (references)

Japan

Unions are free of government control and influence. (references)

Macau

The interests of the PRC heavily influence local trade union activities, including the selection of union leadership. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "influence": area of influence ♦ back influence ♦ backstairs influence ♦ baleful influence ♦ be under the influence of ♦ combination influence mine ♦ combined influence mine ♦ dominant influence ♦ drug influence recognition training ♦ exercise an influence ♦ exercise influence ♦ exert an influence ♦ exert influence ♦ fall under smb.'s influence ♦ gain influence ♦ get a job through backstairs influence ♦ harmful influence ♦ have an influence ♦ have an influence upon ♦ have influence ♦ have influence upon ♦ have strong influence ♦ influence field ♦ influence mine ♦ influence peddler ♦ influence peddling ♦ influence release sinker ♦ influence sweep ♦ outside influence ♦ position of influence ♦ put under the influence of chloroform ♦ road surface influence ♦ ship influence ♦ sphere of influence ♦ telephone influence factor ♦ under the influence ♦ under the influence of ♦ under the influence of drink ♦ under the influence of drugs ♦ undue influence ♦ win influence. Additional references.

Beginning with "influence": influence-heavy, influence-peddling, influence-spotting.

Ending with "influence": cross-influence, d-influence, euro-influence, high-influence, landlord-influence, over-influence, pre-influence, shares-for-influence, spotting-the-influence.

Afrikaans

beïnvloed (act, affect). (various references)

Albanian

influencoj (operate, prepossess), influencë (drag, effect, influenza, pull, reaction), ndikoj (affect, bias, color, colour, operate, prepossess, sway), ndikim (clout, drag, effect, hold, impact, interest, pull, reaction, stimulus, sway), faktor që ndikon. (various references)

Arabic 

أَثَر (ruin, trace, tradition), ‏فعالية (activity, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, leverage, performance), ‏نفوذ (authority, clout, in, leverage, potency, power, prestige, purchase, reign, standing, tutelage, weight, weightiness), ‏تأثير نفوذ, ‏تدخل غير مشروع, ‏سلطة (arm, chicory, command, hold, horn, law, power, prerogative, rule, seigniory), ‏عامل مؤثر, ‏التأثير (effectuation), ‏أثر في (affect, impact, inspire, involve, manipulate, overawe, prepossess, react, touch), ‏أثر (bias, count, echo, effect, give rise to, hint, impress, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, sink, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, tint, touch, trace, trail, trait, vestige, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

въздействувам (affect, impinge, operate, react, reverberate, work), въздействие (action, edge, effect, impact, impingement, leaven, reach, repercussions), влиятелен човек (heavyweight, influential), влияя (act on, affect), влияние (action, coloring, colouring, credit, dominance, domination, drag, effect, empire, force, grip, gripe, hold, impact, interest, leaven, prestige, pull, punch, purchase, reach, stimulus, sway), оказвам влияние (operate), повлияване (infection). (various references)

Chinese 

影響 (to effect, to influence), 影响 (Affect, Affecting, Clout, Effected, Effecting, Influenced, Influencing), 勢力 (power), 勢 (conditions, tendency). (various references)

Czech

vliv (clout, drift, effect, hold, leverage, pull), přimìt (bring, gain over, get to, induce, resolve), ovlivòovat (lead, lobby). (various references)

Danish

indflydelse (action). (various references)

Dutch

invloed hebben op (act, affect), invloed (action), beïnvloeden (act, affect). (various references)

Esperanto

influo, influi (affect). (various references)

Faeroese

ávirkan (action, impression). (various references)

Farsi 

نفوذ (Authority, Dominance, Force, Hank, Importance, Infiltration, Influx, Osmosis, Prestige, Prevalence, Seepage), تفوق (Advantage, Ascendency, Excellence, Predominance, Prevalence, Supremacy, Vantage), تواناءی (Ability, Authority, Energy, Might, Potency, Strength, Vim), تجلی (Expression, Phenomenon), تاثیر (Efficacy, Hank, Influx, Sensation), اعتبار (Authenticity, Authority, Credibility, Credit, Esteem, Estimate, Importance, Prestige, Reliability, Reputation, Trust), برتری (Advantage, Excellence, Excellency, Majesty, Power, Predominance, Preference, Prepayment, Primacy, Priority, Profit, Prominence, Supremacy, Trancscendent, Upperhand, Vantage). (various references)

Finnish

vaikutusmahdollisuus, vaikutus (action, effect, impression), vaikuttaminen, vaikuttaa (act, affect, be conducive, be effective, conduce, contribute, exercise an effect, have effect, take effect). (various references)

French

influence (induction), influer, influencer (involve), ascendant. (various references)

Frisian

ynfloed (action), beynfloedzje (act, affect), beynfloeding (action). (various references)

German

beeinflussen (act, affect, govern, impinge, infect, sway, tamper with, to bias, to influence), einwirken (act, act on, affect, appeal, be effective, have an influence, have effect, impinge, to operate), Einfluß (action, ascendancy). (various references)

Greek 

επιρροή (influence on, leverage, sway). (various references)

Hebrew 

השפעה (effect, hold, leverage, pull, swaying). (various references)

Hungarian

hatás (action, affection, effect, impact, impression, leading), befolyás (ascendancy, drag, hank, hold, impact, inflow, leading, lever, leverage, potency, suck, sway). (various references)

Indonesian

pengaruh (ascendancy, effect, interact), mempengaruhi (affect), bergagah (act with firmness, have strength). (various references)

Italian

influsso (ascendancy, impact), influenza (ascendancy, control, flu, grippe, hold, influenza, leverage, pull). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

反照 (reflection), 威力 (authority, might, power), 威力　 (authority, might, power), インフラ開発 (inflation, influenza, influenza virus, infrastructure development), 勢威 (force, power), 勢い (authority, course, energy, force, impetus, life, might, necessarily, power, spirit, tendency, vigor), 勢力 (energy, force, might, potency, power, strength), 勢力　 (might, power, strength), 左右 (control, domination, left and right), 偉力 (authority, might, power), 伝手 (connection, go-between, intermediary, introducer), 影響 (effect), 影響　 (effect), 威光 (authority, power), 反映 (reflection), 趣き (appearance, aspect, charm, effect, gist, grace, meaning, refinement, taste, tenor), 権威 (authority, power), 権勢 (power), 権力 (authority, power), 感化 (correction, inspiration, reform), 手蔓 (connections, contacts), 波及 (extension, spread), 有力 (potent, prominence), 反響 (echo, reaction, repercussion, reverberation), 加減 (addition and subtraction, adjustment, allowance for, chance, condition, degree, extent, flavor, measure, moderation, seasoning, state of health), 力 (ability, agency, attainment, authority, capability, efficacy, emphasis, endeavors, energy, exertions, faculty, force, good offices, help, means, might, power, resources, strength, stress, support, vigor), 煽り (gust), 羽振り (plumage, power), 趣 (appearance, aspect, charm, effect, gist, grace, meaning, refinement, taste, tenor), 反影 (reflection). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ゆうりょく (courage, potent, prominence), ちから (ability, agency, attainment, authority, capability, efficacy, emphasis, endeavors, energy, exertions, faculty, force, good offices, help, means, might, power, resources, strength, stress, support, vigor), てづる (connections, contacts), はんえい (anti-British, flourishing, penumbra, prospering, prosperity, reflection, thriving), はんきょう (anticommunist, echo, reaction, repercussion, reverberation), はんしょう (counter-evidence, disproof, fire alarm, fire bell, half burnt, half death, midnight, proof to the contrary, rebel leader, reflection), はぶり (plumage, power), はきゅう (extension, spread), けんりょく (authority, power), けんい (authority, power), えいきょう (effect, London), インフルエンス , おもむき (appearance, aspect, charm, effect, gist, grace, meaning, refinement, taste, tenor), あおり (gust), いりょく (authority, might, power, will, will power), いこう (authority, clothes rack, great deed, great effect, hereafter, idea, inclination, intention, lingering odor of giver, on and after, perfume on the clothing, posthumous manuscripts, power, remains, switching over to, thereafter, to relax, to repose, to rest, transposition, works following the deceased), いきおい (authority, course, energy, force, impetus, life, might, necessarily, power, spirit, tendency, vigor), かげん (addition and subtraction, adjustment, allowance for, chance, condition, degree, extent, flavor, flowery words, good words, last quarter, lower limit, measure, moderation, reticence, seasoning, source of misfortune, state of health, taciturnity, wise saying), かんか (connivance, correction, crucible, cyclization, dried fruit, fighting, inspiration, leisure, lonely people, pot, reform, separation from the world, shield and halberd, shutting one's eyes to, under the jurisdiction of, war, widow and widower), せいりょく (energy, force, might, potency, power, strength, vigor, vitality), せいい (correct location, correct meaning, correct position, force, good faith, military uniform, power, sincerity, traveling clothes, true heart, warring against barbarians), つて (connection, connections, go-between, good offices, intermediary, introducer, someone to trust), さゆう (control, domination, left and right), けんせい (check, constitutional government, constraint, diversion, feint, power, prefectural strengths, restraint, screen). (various references)

Korean 

영향. (various references)

Malay

pengaruh (action), aruh ... mempengaruhi (act, affect). (various references)

Manx

pooar (faculty, power, province, puissance, warrant), obbraghey (act, action, behaviour, behaviour of machines, crew, cultivate, elaboration, employment, exercise, forge, function, handle, handling, labour, motion, operate, operation, performance, ply, process, start, wangle; persuance, work, work up, wreak), obbragh (a production, functional, functioning, movement, operative), kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), cummaght (potency, power, province), cleayney (attract, bank, circumvent, decoy, deviate, dispose, distort, distortion, diversion, divert, draw off, incline, induce, inveigle, list, penchant, persuasion, perversion, predilection, predispose, recede, seduce, stoop, tend, tend as garden, trend, vamp, veer). (various references)

Norwegian

innflytelse, influere, påvirke (affect). (various references)

Papiamen

influensiá (act, affect), influensia (action), influenshá (act, affect), influensha (action). (various references)

Pig Latin

influenceay.(various references)

Polish

wpływać (act, affect). (various references)

Portuguese

influência (account, action, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, contact, domination, energy, inspiration, leading, leverage, power, prestige, purchase, weight, yeast), influenciar (actuate, bias, bring, coax, dominate, have an affect on, induce, prepossess, talk, weigh). (various references)

Romanian

influenţã (action, ascendancy, authority, carry over, credit, effect, force, hold, impact, influenza, leaven, potency, push, reaction, weight), influenţa (affect, bias, bring to bear, lobby, predetermine, reach, sway, work), inducţie (induction), trecere (alley, credit, cropper, crossing, Lane, March, pass, passage, passage way, passing, transit, transition, way, weight), forţã (drive, energy, force, greatness, locomotive power, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, potency, power, punch, sinew, strength, stress, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, weight), factor influent, autoritate (ascendency, authorities, authority, command, control, credit, cropper, faculty, force, governance, government, hold, importance, jurisdiction, lordship, masterdom, mastery, power, rulership), înrâuri. (various references)

Russian 

воздействовать (manipulate, react, reverberate), воздействие (reaction), влиять влияние, влиять (act, affect, influenced), влияние (affectedness, authority, carry weight, cinch, credit, dominance, hold, impact, interest, leaven, say, weight). (various references)

Scottish

drùidh (affect, ooze through, penetrate, soak). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uticati (affect, disembogue, flow, have an effect), uticaj (ascendant, hold, interest, say, sway), ulivanje (inculcation, inflow, inflowing, infusion, merging), delovati (affect, work), dejstvo (action, effect, play). (various references)

Spanish

influencia (ascendancy, clout, Diapason, heft, hold, impact, inflow, influx, power, pressure, sway), influir (affect, bias, carry weight). (various references)

Swedish

påverka (act, affect, bias, impinge, will), inverkan (agency, impact, operation), inflytande (dominance, impact, in, leverage, purchase, sway, weight). (various references)

Turkish

ikna etmek (argue, argue smb. into smth., assure, bring, bring over, bring round, cajole, coax, convince, convince smb. of smth., dispose, draw, entice, fast-talk, have a way with, induce, interest, jolly, persuade, prevail on, prevail upon, satisfy, sell smb. on, wheedle, win, win smb. round), torpil (backing, friend at court, mine, oracle, pie, pull, push, torpedo), tesir etmek, tesir (effect, efficacy, impress, impression, sway), söz geçirmek, nüfuz (authority, clout, diffusion, dominance, domination, force, hold, interest, moment, penetration, prestige, pull, purchase, wire), etkili olmak (be effective, have influence, prevail, take, work), etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head), etki (action, bearing, clout, drag, drift, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, force, forcefulness, hold, impact, impress, impression, imprint, incidence, interest, jolt, leaven, penetration, point, potency, pull, purchase, reflection, reflexion, ring, sound, stamp, sway, virtue, weight). (various references)

Turkmen 

tдsir etmek, tдsir (impression). (various references)

Ukrainian

впливова особа (in, mugwump, overling), впливати (affect, bear in, manipulate, operate, predetermine, react, sway), вплив (action, ascendant, authority, effect, impact, interest, operation, pressure, reaction, weight). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thế lực người có ảnh hưởng, tác dụng uy thế, ảnh hưởng (effect, impact, leading, reign), điều có tác dụng người có thế lực, điều có ảnh hưởng. (various references)

Welsh

dylanwadu, dylanwad. (various references)

adfecerunt, adfectu, adficere, adficerent, adficiam, adficiant, adficiar, adficient, adficientes, affecti, affectu, affectum, contagione, curva, curvabunt, curvant, curvat, curvatis, curvato, curvatus, curvaverit, curvaverunt, curvavi, curvavit, curvem, curvemur, duco, gratia, gratiae, gratiam, gratiarum, gratias, gratiis, induc, inducam, inducamque, inducant, inducantur, inducas, inducat, inducent, inducentque, inducere, inducerem, inducerent, induceret, induces, inducesque, inducet, induci, inducitis, inducitur, induco indux inductum, inducturus, induxeras, induxerim, induxero, induxerunt, induxi, induxissem, induxisset, induxisti, induxit, induxitque, momenta, momentis, momento, momentum, moveo moti motum, opem, opes, opibus, opum, potentia, praevaleamus, praevaleat, praevalebat, praevalebis, praevalebunt, praevalere, praevalet, praevaluerat, praevaluerint, praevaluerit, praevaluero, praevaluerunt, praevalui, praevaluisse, praevaluit, praevaluitque, pulsus, superinducere, superinduxit, tacta, tactas, tactum, tangam, tangant, tangat, tangatis, tange, tangebant, tangebat, tangens, tangere, tangeremus, tangerent, tangeres, tangeret, tanget, tangetque, tangit, tangitis, tangunt, tetigerant, tetigerat, tetigeris, tetigerit, tetigero, tetigerunt, tetigisset, tetigit, tetigitque. (various references)

influentia. (various references)

influence. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "influence": influenceable, influenced, influences. (additional references)

Words ending with "influence": counterinfluence, interinfluence, noninfluence. (additional references)

Words containing "influence": counterinfluenced, counterinfluences, interinfluenced, interinfluences, noninfluences, uninfluenced. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Influence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enfluence, ifluence, inffuence, inflience, influen, influency, influens, influenze, influnce, influnence, inluence. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: funicle, leucine, nuclein, unfence.

-3 letters: feline, fennec, fennel, funnel, leucin, nuclei, nuncle.

-4 letters: cline, elfin, ennui, fence, linen, niece, uncle.

-5 letters: ceil, cine, clef, clue, cuif, feel, fice, file, fine, flee, flic, flue, fuci, fuel, lice, lief, lien, lieu, life, line, linn, luce, lune, neif, nene, nice, nine, unci.

+1 letter: influenced, influences.

+2 letters: uninflected.

+3 letters: genuflecting, genuflection, nonfluencies, noninfluence, uninfluenced.

+4 letters: genuflections, influenceable, noninfluences.

+5 letters: fancifulnesses, interinfluence.