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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



... Jason Bolt, after a pause. "I've wondered why the scoundrel didn't touch off something more important, but the significance of his failure to do so never occurred to me. Go on, Mr. Creighton; I'm getting a lesson ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston

... as Bert reached for the match with which to touch off the fuse he heard Dalzell call in a ...
— The High School Boys' Fishing Trip • H. Irving Hancock

... 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

... these novel lines touch off the Duke's disposition and genius to a tittle. He had a love for such scenes of strife: in the midst of them his spirit rose calm and supreme, soaring (like an angel or not, but anyway the compliment is a very pretty one) on the battle-clouds majestic, ...
— Catherine: A Story • William Makepeace Thackeray



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