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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

... which no real satisfaction is attainable, compel us to faith. Before the eyes of all the world, Nanny's limbs had been broken, and by touching the sacred body she had been restored to strength again. Why should not others find similar good fortune? Delicate mothers first privately brought their children who were suffering from obstinate disorders, and they believed that they could trace an immediate improvement. The ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... for he was an inarticulate person and could not talk interestingly even on his own subject, jewels. His idea of conversation with women was a discussion of the weather, contrasting that of England with that of America, or perhaps touching upon politics. He was afraid of questions about jewels lest he should allow himself to be pumped, and the information he might inadvertently ...

— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... feeble gleam—seemed to flash before him, but at a great distance. Something called him—not by name, but by again touching that unfamiliar chord which had vibrated in his soul when the child had first stood before him. He felt a strange psychic presentiment as of things soon to be revealed. A sentiment akin to awe stole over him, as if he were standing ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... the comic operas are excellent; and here the national music and singing appear to great advantage. It never degenerates to the grotesque or absurd buffo of the Italians, but is always exquisitely graceful, simple, touching ...

— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye

... get about; three bishops had gone to congratulate the King, and these gentlemen had despatched couriers to Paris to inform the heads of the various parishes, inviting them to write to the prince sympathising references touching an event which God and all ...

— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan

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