touch
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Is touch a Scrabble word?
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- Wordle Yes
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What is the meaning of touch?
Definition
verb (English)
1. Primarily physical senses.Examples: "I touched his face softly."; "While thus she spake, / She toucht his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]"Synonyms: contact, feel, grope, handle, touchtransitive
2. Primarily physical senses.Examples: "Sitting on the bench, the hem of her skirt touched the ground."transitive
3. Primarily physical senses.Examples: "They stood next to each other, their shoulders touching."intransitive
4. Primarily physical senses.Examples: "Please can I have a look, if I promise not to touch?"intransitive
5. Primarily physical senses.Examples: "If you touch her, I'll kill you."; "Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee."transitive
6. Primarily physical senses.Examples: "The man was arrested for touching a girl without her consent."Synonyms: caress, fondle, gropetransitive
noun (English)
1. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.Examples: "a heavy touch, or a light touch"countableuncountable
2. (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.Examples: "He promised to keep in touch while he was away."; "lose touch"Synonyms: connection, contactuncountable
3. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.Examples: "Not alone / The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, / Do strongly speak to us."countableobsoleteuncountable
4. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.Examples: "a true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy"Synonyms: feeling, affect, emotion, feeling, kibun, sensation, sentiment, sennimentcountableobsoleteuncountable
5. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.Examples: "Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used."countableobsoleteuncountable
6. (obsolete) A brief essay.Examples: "Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch."Synonyms: essayette, essaylet, miniessaycountableobsoleteuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary