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Touched

adjective

1.

Having come into contact. Antonym: untouched.

2.

Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion. Synonyms: affected, moved, stirred. "Very touched by the stranger's kindness" Antonym: unmoved.

3.

Slightly insane. Synonym: fey.

Touch

verb

(past & past part. touched; pres. part. touching)

1.

Make physical contact with, come in contact with. "She never touched her husband"

2.

Perceive via the tactile sense.

3.

Affect emotionally. Synonym: stir. "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"

4.

Be relevant to. Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on. "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

5.

Be in direct physical contact with; make contact. Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet. "Their hands touched" , "The wire must not contact the metal cover" , "The surfaces contact at this point"

6.

Have an effect upon. Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on.

7.

Deal with; usually used with a form of negation. "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"

8.

Cause to be in brief contact with.

9.

To extend as far as. Synonyms: extend to, reach. "Can he reach?" , "The chair must not touch the wall"

10.

Be equal to in quality or ability. Synonyms: equal, match, rival. "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" , "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

11.

Tamper with. Synonym: disturb.

12.

Make a more or less disguised reference to. Synonyms: advert, allude.

13.

Comprehend.

14.

Consume. Synonym: partake.

15.

Color lightly. Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint. "The leaves were tinged red in November"

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"Touched" Quotes from Famous Books

... steps into the Mall, where some captured guns were already in position, with children swarming about them; and so through St. James's Park to the Abbey. The fog was now all but clear, and there were frosty stars overhead. The Abbey towers rose out of a purple haze, etherially pale and moon-touched. The House of Commons was sitting, but there was still no light on the Clock Tower, and no unmuffling of the lamps. London was waiting, as the world was waiting, for the next step in the vast drama which had three continents for its setting; and meanwhile, save for the added movements ...

— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... of the women,-of their instant intelligence, quickening every task that they touched; their capacity for organization and cooperation, which gave their action discipline and enhanced the effectiveness of everything they attempted; their aptitude at tasks to which they had never before set their hands; their utter self-sacrifice alike in what they did and ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... na be touched, Etin, Nor sall you hang on tree; Your lady's in her father's court, And all he ...

— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)

... puncheon floor between them stretched the woman's husband. The echo had outlasted his life and, because the muzzle had almost touched his breast, he sprawled in a dark ...

— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck

... the shady side hundreds of eels were swimming about—they were most wonderful things; some of them were thin like ribbons, and others were round and plump like thick ropes. They never seemed to fight at all, and although the ducklings were so tiny the big eels never touched any of them, even when they dived right down amongst them. Some of the eels swam along very slowly, looking on this side and on that as if they were out of work or up from the country, and others whizzed by with incredible swiftness. Mary Makebelieve thought that the latter kind had just heard their ...

— Mary, Mary • James Stephens

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