What is the meaning of touched?

verb

  • Make physical contact with, come in contact with.
    • usage: "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
  • Perceive via the tactile sense.
    • usage: "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
  • 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"
  • Cause to be in brief contact with.
    • usage: "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
  • 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"
  • 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

  • Having come into contact.
  • Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion.
    • usage: "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the stranger's kindness"
  • Slightly insane.
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APAWordNet. (2010). touched. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/touched/definitions/1185585
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "touched" http://smartdefine.org/touched/definitions/1185585 (accessed September 20, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, touched, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/touched/definitions/1185585>.
MLAWordNet. "touched" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/touched/definitions/1185585>
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