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Touching

adjective

1.

Arousing affect. Synonyms: affecting, poignant. "Poignant grief cannot endure forever" , "His gratitude was simple and touching"

noun

1.

The event of something coming in contact with the body. Synonym: touch. "The cooling touch of the night air"

2.

The act of putting two things together with no space between them. Synonym: touch.

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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"Touching" Quotes from Famous Books

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— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie

... attempted to find those which seem to me suited to solve the sexual problem of the human race most advantageously under the present social conditions. Every one to-day admits that our sexual life leaves much to be desired, but is afraid of touching ...

— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel

... deadly projectiles was going on, a little, daughter of Colonel William J. Landram, whose home was in Danville, came running out from his house and planted a small national flag on one of Hescock's guns. The patriotic act was so brave and touching that it thrilled all who witnessed the scene; and until the close of the war, when peace separated the surviving officers and men of the battery, that little flag was protected and cherished as a memento ...

— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. I., Part 2 • P. H. Sheridan

... conclude this letter without touching on another point, that suggests itself at the moment. It is the fashion to decry the niggardliness of the American government on the subject of money, as compared with those of this hemisphere. Nothing can be more unjust. Our working men are paid better than even those of England, with ...

— Recollections of Europe • J. Fenimore Cooper

... ground or on a low seat, while his feet were secured at the ankles by two vertical boards. The upper was raised for the insertion of the ankles in the specially cut-out half-round holes in each board, so that when the boards were touching and in the same vertical plane, the ankles were completely surrounded ...

— Life in a Medival City - Illustrated by York in the XVth Century • Edwin Benson

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