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Touch off   /tətʃ ɔf/   Listen
Touch off

verb
1.
Put in motion or move to act.  Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, trigger, trigger off, trip.  "Actuate the circuits"





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"Touch off" Quotes from Famous Books



... made in the vicinity. Ignoring the foundries and shipyards, the popular imagination recognizes but these two commodities—the powder which could blow up the obstructions to all the American harbors, and the match which could touch off the train. A million dollars' worth of gunpowder and three hundred thousand dollars' worth of matches are the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various


Words linked to "Touch off" :   pioneer, pass off, take place, occur, go on, fall out, initiate, come about, hap, happen, pass


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