touch
make physical contact with, come in contact with
How often you will meet it
Rank 798 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 22,942 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.011% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- make physical contact with, come in contact with Touch the stone for good luckShe never touched her husband
- perceive via the tactile sense Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her
- affect emotionally also: stir A stirring movieI was touched by your kind letter of sympathy
- be relevant to also: refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on There were lots of questions referring to her talkMy remark pertained to your earlier comments
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact also: adjoin, meet, contact The two buildings touchTheir hands touched
- have an effect upon also: affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on Will the new rules affect me?
touch in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Mrs. Brooke continued, with a touch of fevered interest.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Hast thou a wounded heart? touch it as seldom as thou wouldst a sore eye.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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The huge man must have been as old as Silas Blackburn, but he showed no touch of gray.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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They suffered her to touch a little hand of each, passively rather than unwillingly, and let it go.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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And thinking to touch her, and gain her confidence, “I could understand you,” he added; “for I, too, have been very unhappy.”
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1