verb
- Make physical contact with, come in contact with.
- usage: "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
- synonyms: touch
- Perceive via the tactile sense.
- usage: "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
- synonyms: touch
- Affect emotionally.
- usage: "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
- Be relevant to.
- usage: "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
- Be in direct physical contact with; make contact.
- usage: "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
- Have an effect upon.
- usage: "Will the new rules affect me"
- Deal with; usually used with a form of negation.
- usage: "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"
- synonyms: touch
- Cause to be in brief contact with.
- usage: "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
- synonyms: touch
- To extend as far as.
- usage: "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach" "The chair must not touch the wall"
- Be equal to in quality or ability.
- usage: "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"
- Tamper with.
- usage: "Don't touch my CDs"
- Make a more or less disguised reference to.
- usage: "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
- Comprehend.
- usage: "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"
- synonyms: touch
- Consume.
- usage: "She didn't touch her food all night"
- Color lightly.
- usage: "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"
adjective
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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