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Adjective touching has 1 sense
- affecting, poignant, touching - arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"
Antonym: unmoving (indirect, via moving)
Noun touching has 2 senses
- touch, touching - the event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air"
--1 is a kind of contact, impinging, striking
--1 has particulars: brush, light touch; stroke
- touch, touching - the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"
--2 is a kind of deed, feat, effort, exploit
--2 has particulars: | | contact; tap, pat, dab; hit, hitting, striking; dig, jab; kiss; kiss, buss, osculation; catch, grab, snatch, snap; handling, manipulation; fingering; grope; palpation, tactual exploration; tickle, tickling, titillation; stroke, stroking; tag; lick, lap; grazing, shaving, skimming |
Verb touch has 15 senses
- touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- touch - perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
--2 is one way to perceive, comprehend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- touch, stir - affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
--3 is one way to affect, impress, move, strike
Sample sentences:
The bad news will touch him
The performance is likely to touch Sue
- refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on - have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- touch, adjoin, meet, contact - be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
Sample sentences:
Our properties touch at this point
His fields touch mine at this point
- affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
--6 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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- touch - deal with; usually used with a form of negation; "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"
--7 is one way to manage, deal, care, handle
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- touch - cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
--8 is one way to touch
Sample sentence:
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- reach, extend to, touch - to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"
--9 is one way to be
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s something
- equal, touch, rival, match - be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
--10 is one way to compete, vie, contend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- touch, disturb - tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
--11 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
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- allude, touch, advert - make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
--12 is one way to hint, suggest
Sample sentence:
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- touch - comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"
--13 is one way to understand
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- partake, touch - consume; "She didn't touch her food all night"
--14 is one way to consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sample sentence:
They touch more bread
- tint, tinct, bepaint, tinge, touch - dye with a color
--15 is one way to dye
Sample sentences:
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