touch
- sense 1: make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
- touch
- sense 2: perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
- touch
- sense 3: affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
- touch stir
- affect impress move strike
- sense 4: be about; have to do with; be relevant to; refer, pertain, or relate to; "What's this novel all about?"; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"
- refer pertain relate concern come_to bear_on touch touch_on
- sense 5: be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
- touch adjoin meet contact
- sense 6: have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
- affect impact bear_upon bear_on touch_on touch
- sense 7: deal with; usually used with a form of negation; "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"
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- sense 8: cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
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- sense 9: to extend as far as, "The sunlight reached the wall";"Can he reach?"
- reach extend_to touch
- sense 10: be equal to in quality or ability; "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"
- equal touch rival match
- sense 11: tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
- touch disturb
- sense 12: make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
- allude touch advert
- hint suggest
- convey impart
- communicate intercommunicate
- sense 13: comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"
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- sense 14: touch, as of food; "She didn't touch her food all night"
- partake touch
- consume ingest take_in take have
- sense 15: dye with a color
- tint tinct bepaint tinge touch
- dye
- discolor discolour colour color