feel

1. (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.Examples: "You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast."; "I felt cold and miserable all night."; "I did feel a complete fool after stumbling on the same rock again."copulativetransitive

2. (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.Examples: "I felt my way through the darkened room."; "I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver."transitive

3. (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.intransitive

4. (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.Examples: "He felt (about) for the light switch in the dark."intransitive

5. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.Examples: "I can feel the sadness in his poems."; "Teach me to feel another's VVoe; / To hide the Fault I ſee; / That Mercy I to others ſhovv, / That Mercy ſhow to me."; "Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do."transitive

6. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.Examples: "I feel that we need to try harder."; "We felt it (to be) our duty to call the police."; "They promised me eternal happiness; And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear."transitive