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Felt

verb

1.

Mat together and make felt-like.

2.

Cover with felt.

3.

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like. Synonyms: felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up.

noun

1.

A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers.

Feel

verb

(past & past part. felt; pres. part. feeling)

1.

Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind. Synonym: experience. "He felt regret"

2.

Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds. Synonym: find. "I find him to be obnoxious" , "I found the movie rather entertaining"

3.

Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles. Synonym: sense. "She felt an object brushing her arm" , "He felt his flesh crawl" , "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"

4.

Be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state. "She felt tired after the long hike" , "She felt sad after her loss"

5.

Have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude. "You make me feel naked" , "I made the students feel different about themselves"

6.

Undergo passive experience of:. "Her fingers felt their way through the string quartet" , "She felt his contempt of her"

7.

Be felt or perceived in a certain way. "The sheets feel soft"

8.

Grope or feel in search of something.

9.

Examine by touch. Synonym: finger. "The customer fingered the sweater"

10.

Examine (a body part) by palpation. Synonym: palpate. "The runner felt her pulse"

11.

Find by testing or cautious exploration.

12.

Produce a certain impression.

13.

Pass one's hands over the sexual organs of.

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"Felt" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tzigana, who felt in her heart, implacable as it was to evil and falsehood, all capabilities of devotion and truth, was condemned to lie, or to lose the love of Prince Andras, which was her very life. There was no other alternative. No, no: since she had met this man, superior ...

— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie

... the night, all the animals did leave Silly Will. Not only the cow and the sheep and the horse but all the animal kingdom! He was sound asleep in his flannel nightgown snuggled under warm wool blankets. Suddenly he felt a jerk. What was happening? He sat up in bed just in time to see his blankets whisk off him and disappear. He looked down. His night shirt was gone! He heard a faint sound almost like the bleating of the old woman's sheep. "Ba-ba-a-a I take ...

— Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds • Lucy Sprague Mitchell

... girl just on the threshold of life; now she was a cultured, well-poised woman of the world, crowned by virtue of her beauty and position as the ruler of the society in which she moved. He sighed a little and suddenly felt that he was growing old. For a while they spoke of what had occurred during Irving's absence from America, the countries the young author had visited, the great men he had met on his travels. Finally he ...

— The New Land - Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country • Elma Ehrlich Levinger

... one moment doubted your kindness and friendship towards me, which I have always felt, and on this occasion I was sure you would keep Lord Liverpool to his engagement; but in looking at his letter you will see that it is very vague, though probably he did not mean it to be so, and I wished you to be aware of this in time. I am quite sensible to your particular attention ...

— Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) - From the Original Family Documents • Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

... occupation and the new. Whichever of these courses we pursue, the hurry with which we pursue it undoes us. For, often we have only that one book in us, which we did not know how to write, and having expressed that which we have felt, we are driven in our second, our third, our fourth, to warm up variations, like those dressed remains of last night's dinner which are served for lunch; or to spin from our usually commonplace imaginations thin extravagances which those who do not try to think for themselves are ever ready to accept ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

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