touch
Pronunciation
[change]Verb
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- (transitive) If you touch something, you feel it with your hand.
- Don't touch the oven -- it's hot and you will get a burn.
- (transitive) If you touch something, you move so near to it that there is no space between you and it.
Noun
[change]- (countable & uncountable) Touch is the act of feeling or coming into physical contact with something.
- A gentle touch of the fabric told her it was silk.
- (uncountable) Touch is ability to feel through the skin by physical contact.
- After the accident, he lost his sense of touch.
- (countable) A touch of something is a small amount of it.
- There was a touch of sadness in his voice.