take effect

to start working The medicine takes effect in less than a half hour. New voter registration laws took effect last year.

1. To become operative, as under law or regulation: The curfew takes effect at midnight.

2. To produce the desired reaction: The antibiotics at last began to take effect.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Xochitl	-	Native American, Nahuatl, Spanish (Latin American)
Leuthar	-	Ancient Germanic
Angelique	-	Dutch
Leonid	lye-ah-NEET (Russian), lee-ah-NEET (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian
Lidka	-	Polish
Ximena	-	Spanish