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touch
Overview of noun touch
The noun touch has 12 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (8) touch, touching -- (the event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air")
2. (4) touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses -- (the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us")
3. (2) touch, trace, ghost -- (a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face")
4. (2) touch, signature -- (a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch")
5. (2) touch, touching -- (the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights")
6. (1) touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon -- (a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic")
7. (1) contact, touch -- (a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues")
8. touch, spot -- (a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism")
9. touch -- (the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch")
10. touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling -- (the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling")
11. touch -- (deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch")
12. touch -- (the feel of mechanical action; "this piano has a wonderful touch")
Overview of verb touch
The verb touch has 15 senses (first 13 from tagged texts)
1. (33) touch -- (make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband")
2. (5) touch -- (perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her")
3. (4) touch, stir -- (affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy")
4. (3) refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on -- (have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments")
5. (3) touch, adjoin, meet, contact -- (be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point")
6. (3) affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch -- (have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?")
7. (2) touch -- (deal with; usually used with a form of negation; "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling")
8. (2) touch -- (cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks")
9. (1) reach, extend to, touch -- (to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall")
10. (1) equal, touch, rival, match -- (be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents")
11. (1) touch, disturb -- (tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!")
12. (1) allude, touch, advert -- (make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it")
13. (1) touch -- (comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem")
14. partake, touch -- (consume; "She didn't touch her food all night")
15. tint, tinct, tinge, touch -- (color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun touch
12 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch, touching
=> contact, impinging, striking
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
=> somatosense
=> modality, sense modality, sensory system
=> sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
=> faculty, mental faculty, module
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> exteroception
=> sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility
=> sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
=> faculty, mental faculty, module
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
touch, trace, ghost
=> suggestion, proposition, proffer
=> proposal
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
touch, signature
=> manner, mode, style, way, fashion
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
touch, touching
=> deed, feat, effort, exploit
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
=> small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
=> indefinite quantity
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
contact, touch
=> communication, communicating
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 8
touch, spot
=> attack
=> affliction
=> trouble
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 9
touch
=> solicitation
=> entreaty, prayer, appeal
=> request, asking
=> speech act
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 10
touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
=> perception
=> basic cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 11
touch
=> adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness
=> skillfulness
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 12
touch
=> tactile property, feel
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun touch
6 of 12 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch, touching
=> brush, light touch
=> stroke
Sense 4
touch, signature
=> common touch
Sense 5
touch, touching
=> contact, physical contact
=> tap, pat, dab
=> hit, hitting, striking
=> dig, jab
=> kiss
=> kiss, buss, osculation
=> catch, grab, snatch, snap
=> handling, manipulation
=> fingering
=> grope
=> palpation, tactual exploration
=> tickle, tickling, titillation
=> stroke, stroking
=> tag
=> lick, lap
=> grazing, shaving, skimming
Sense 6
touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
=> snuff
Sense 10
touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
=> creepiness
=> cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation
Sense 11
touch
=> finishing touch, capstone, copestone
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun touch
12 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch, touching
=> contact, impinging, striking
Sense 2
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
=> somatosense
=> exteroception
Sense 3
touch, trace, ghost
=> suggestion, proposition, proffer
Sense 4
touch, signature
=> manner, mode, style, way, fashion
Sense 5
touch, touching
=> deed, feat, effort, exploit
Sense 6
touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
=> small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
Sense 7
contact, touch
=> communication, communicating
Sense 8
touch, spot
=> attack
Sense 9
touch
=> solicitation
Sense 10
touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
=> perception
Sense 11
touch
=> adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness
Sense 12
touch
=> tactile property, feel
Antonyms of noun touch
Member Holonyms of noun touch
Substance Holonyms of noun touch
Part Holonyms of noun touch
1 of 12 senses of touch
Sense 2
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
PART OF: somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
Member Meronyms of noun touch
Substance Meronyms of noun touch
Part Meronyms of noun touch
Meronyms of noun touch
Holonyms of noun touch
1 of 12 senses of touch
Sense 2
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
PART OF: somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
Attributes of noun touch
Derived Forms of noun touch
4 of 12 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch, touching
RELATED TO>(verb) touch#9
=> reach, extend to, touch
RELATED TO>(verb) touch#8
=> touch
RELATED TO>(verb) touch#5
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
RELATED TO>(verb) touch#2
=> touch
RELATED TO>(verb) touch#1
=> touch
Sense 2
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
RELATED TO>(verb) touch#2
=> touch
Sense 5
touch, touching
RELATED TO>(verb) touch#8
=> touch
Sense 10
touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
RELATED TO>(verb) touch#2
=> touch
Domain of noun touch
Domain Terms of noun touch
Familiarity of noun touch
touch used as a noun is familiar (polysemy count =12)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun touch
12 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch, touching
> contact, impinging, striking
=> collision, hit
=> engagement, mesh, meshing, interlocking
=> flick
=> impact
=> touch, touching
Sense 2
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
> somatosense
=> touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
=> kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement
> exteroception
=> sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality
=> touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
=> hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality
=> taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality
=> smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality
Sense 3
touch, trace, ghost
> suggestion, proposition, proffer
=> hint, intimation, breath
=> touch, trace, ghost
=> overture, advance, approach, feeler
Sense 4
touch, signature
> manner, mode, style, way, fashion
=> artistic style, idiom
=> drape
=> fit
=> form
=> life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi
=> setup
=> touch, signature
=> wise
Sense 5
touch, touching
> deed, feat, effort, exploit
=> acquiring, getting
=> causing, causation
=> delivery, obstetrical delivery
=> departure, going, going away, leaving
=> derring-do
=> discovery, find, uncovering
=> disposal, disposition
=> hit
=> implementation, effectuation
=> egress, egression, emergence
=> equalization, equalisation, leveling
=> exhumation, disinterment, digging up
=> mitzvah, mitsvah
=> propulsion, actuation
=> rally, rallying
=> recovery, retrieval
=> running away
=> stunt
=> touch, touching
=> tour de force
Sense 6
touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
> small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
=> helping, portion, serving
=> taste, mouthful
=> crumb
=> dab, splash, splatter
=> spot, bit
=> few
=> hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair, whisker
=> modicum
=> scattering, sprinkling
=> shoestring, shoe string
=> spray, spraying
=> nose
=> step, stone's throw
=> little
=> shtik, shtick, schtik, schtick
=> tad, shade
=> minimum, lower limit
=> morsel
=> handful, smattering
=> couple
=> drop, drib, driblet
=> dollop
=> dreg
=> jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit
=> nip, shot
=> trace, hint, suggestion
=> shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge
=> tot
=> touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
Sense 7
contact, touch
> communication, communicating
=> transmission
=> intercommunication
=> medium
=> channel, communication channel, line
=> mail, mail service, postal service, post
=> dramaturgy, dramatic art, dramatics, theater, theatre
=> discussion, treatment, discourse
=> exhortation
=> expression, verbal expression, verbalism
=> examination, exam, test
=> persuasion, suasion
=> dissuasion
=> expostulation, remonstrance, remonstration, objection
=> contact, touch
=> traffic
Sense 8
touch, spot
> attack
=> anxiety attack
=> flare
=> seizure, ictus, raptus
=> touch, spot
=> stroke, apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA
=> paroxysm, fit, convulsion
=> hysterics
=> occlusion
=> heart attack
Sense 9
touch
> solicitation
=> beggary, begging, mendicancy
=> touch
=> importunity, urgency, urging
Sense 10
touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
> perception
=> constancy, perceptual constancy
=> detection, sensing
=> visual perception, beholding, seeing
=> auditory perception, sound perception
=> sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum
=> somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
=> touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
Sense 11
touch
> adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness
=> touch
=> dexterity, manual dexterity, sleight
Sense 12
touch
> tactile property, feel
=> touch
=> texture
Meronyms of noun touch
12 senses of touch
Holonyms of noun touch
1 of 12 senses of touch
Sense 2
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
PART OF: somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somataesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense
Grep of noun touch
cartouch
common touch
finishing touch
light touch
midas touch
sense of touch
soft touch
touch
touch-me-not
touch-typist
touch football
touch modality
touch perception
touch screen
touch sensation
touch system
touch typing
touchback
touchdown
toucher
touchiness
touching
touchline
touchscreen
touchstone
touchwood
Antonyms of verb touch
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb touch
15 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch
Also See> touch down#1
Sense 2
touch
=> perceive, comprehend
Sense 3
touch, stir
=> affect, impress, move, strike
Sense 4
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
Sense 5
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
Sense 6
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 7
touch
=> manage, deal, care, handle
=> control, command
Sense 8
touch
=> touch
Sense 9
reach, extend to, touch
=> be
Sense 10
equal, touch, rival, match
=> compete, vie, contend
Sense 11
touch, disturb
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 12
allude, touch, advert
=> hint, suggest
=> convey, impart
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 13
touch
=> understand
Sense 14
partake, touch
=> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sense 15
tint, tinct, tinge, touch
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb touch
9 of 15 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch
=> engage
=> touch
=> toe
=> pick up
=> strike, hit
=> finger, thumb
=> feel
=> palpate, feel
=> handle, palm
=> caress
=> hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
=> brush
=> skim over, skim
=> hit
=> strike
=> kiss, buss, osculate
=> kiss
=> mouth
=> press
=> tag
Sense 3
touch, stir
=> get
Sense 4
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
=> focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on, center
=> apply, hold, go for
=> involve, affect, regard
=> matter to, interest
Sense 5
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
=> cover, spread over
=> cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratch
=> attach
=> hug
=> border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on
=> surround, skirt, border
=> lean on, rest on, lean against
Sense 6
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> strike a blow
=> repercuss
=> tell on
=> redound
=> stimulate, excite
=> process, treat
=> hydrolize, hydrolise
=> tinge, color, colour, distort
=> queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril
=> hit, strike
=> subject
=> trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
=> influence, act upon, work
=> slam-dunk
Sense 9
reach, extend to, touch
=> reach into
Sense 11
touch, disturb
=> upset
=> violate
Sense 14
partake, touch
=> receive
Sense 15
tint, tinct, tinge, touch
=> henna
=> tincture
=> complexion
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb touch
15 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch
Also See> touch down#1
Sense 2
touch
=> perceive, comprehend
Sense 3
touch, stir
=> affect, impress, move, strike
Sense 4
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
Sense 5
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
Sense 6
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 7
touch
=> manage, deal, care, handle
Sense 8
touch
=> touch
Sense 9
reach, extend to, touch
=> be
Sense 10
equal, touch, rival, match
=> compete, vie, contend
Sense 11
touch, disturb
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 12
allude, touch, advert
=> hint, suggest
Sense 13
touch
=> understand
Sense 14
partake, touch
=> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sense 15
tint, tinct, tinge, touch
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
'Cause To' of verb touch
Derived Forms of verb touch
5 of 15 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch
RELATED TO>(noun) touch#1
=> touch, touching
RELATED TO>(noun) toucher#1
=> toucher
RELATED TO>(noun) touching#2
=> touch, touching
Sense 2
touch
RELATED TO>(noun) touch#10
=> touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
RELATED TO>(noun) touch#2
=> touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
RELATED TO>(noun) touch#1
=> touch, touching
RELATED TO>(noun) touching#1
=> touch, touching
Sense 5
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
RELATED TO>(noun) touch#1
=> touch, touching
Sense 8
touch
RELATED TO>(noun) touch#5
=> touch, touching
RELATED TO>(noun) touch#1
=> touch, touching
RELATED TO>(noun) toucher#1
=> toucher
Sense 9
reach, extend to, touch
RELATED TO>(noun) touch#1
=> touch, touching
Domain of verb touch
Domain Terms of verb touch
Familiarity of verb touch
touch used as a verb is familiar (polysemy count =15)
Sample Sentences of verb touch
15 senses of touch
Sense 1
touch
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody PP
*> Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 2
touch
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 3
touch, stir
EX: The bad news will touch him
EX: The performance is likely to touch Sue
Sense 4
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
*> Something ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
Sense 5
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
EX: Our properties touch at this point
EX: His fields touch mine at this point
Sense 6
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
Sense 7
touch
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 8
touch
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 9
reach, extend to, touch
*> Something is ----ing PP
*> Something ----s something
Sense 10
equal, touch, rival, match
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
Sense 11
touch, disturb
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 12
allude, touch, advert
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 13
touch
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 14
partake, touch
EX: They touch more bread
Sense 15
tint, tinct, tinge, touch
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb touch
12 of 15 senses of touch
Sense 2
touch
> perceive, comprehend
=> feel, sense
=> apperceive
=> pick up, receive
=> divine
=> hallucinate
=> misperceive
=> catch, pick up
=> dream
=> hurt, ache, suffer
=> smell
=> touch
=> see
=> sight
=> hear
=> listen
=> taste
=> find
=> see through
Sense 3
touch, stir
> affect, impress, move, strike
=> infect
=> surprise
=> impress, ingrain, instill
=> awaken
=> engrave
=> strike dumb
=> zap
=> jar
=> hit home, strike home, strike a chord, strike a note
=> smite
=> cloud
=> pierce
=> impress
=> sweep away, sweep off
=> disturb, upset, trouble
=> touch, stir
=> move
=> sadden
=> alienate
Sense 6
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Sense 7
touch
> manage, deal, care, handle
=> administer, administrate
=> organize, organise
=> work
=> come to grips, get to grips
=> dispose of
=> take care, mind
=> coordinate
=> juggle
=> process
=> mismanage, mishandle, misconduct
=> direct
=> conduct, carry on, deal
=> touch
Sense 8
touch
> touch
=> engage
=> touch
=> toe
=> pick up
=> strike, hit
=> finger, thumb
=> feel
=> palpate, feel
=> handle, palm
=> caress
=> hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
=> brush
=> skim over, skim
=> hit
=> strike
=> kiss, buss, osculate
=> kiss
=> mouth
=> press
=> tag
Sense 9
reach, extend to, touch
> be
=> stretch, stretch along
=> attend, go to
=> occupy, fill
=> dwell, live, inhabit
=> inhabit, occupy
=> stand back, keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay away
=> reach, extend to, touch
=> run, go, pass, lead, extend
=> go, lead
=> cover, continue, extend
=> extend, poke out, reach out
=> lie
=> sit
=> face
=> straddle
=> follow
=> center on
=> lie, rest
=> belong, go
=> come
Sense 10
equal, touch, rival, match
> compete, vie, contend
=> try for, go for
=> play
=> run off
=> race, run
=> rival
=> emulate
=> equal, touch, rival, match
Sense 11
touch, disturb
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Sense 12
allude, touch, advert
> hint, suggest
=> intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
=> clue in
=> allude, touch, advert
Sense 13
touch
> understand
=> grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
=> sense
=> follow
=> catch, get
=> touch
=> understand, read, interpret, translate
=> read
=> interpret, construe, see
=> make out
=> solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work
=> penetrate, fathom, bottom
Sense 14
partake, touch
> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
=> hit
=> cannibalize, cannibalise
=> use, habituate
=> eat
=> eat
=> drink, imbibe
=> drink, booze, fuddle
=> partake, touch
=> feed, eat
=> satiate, sate, replete, fill
=> sample, try, try out, taste
=> take in, sop up, suck in, take up
=> smoke
=> drug, do drugs
=> swallow, get down
=> sup
Sense 15
tint, tinct, tinge, touch
> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> blackwash
=> motley, parti-color
=> polychrome, polychromize, polychromise
=> azure
=> purple, empurple, purpurate
=> aurify
=> verdigris
=> pinkify
=> incarnadine
=> embrown
=> handcolor, handcolour
=> tint, tinct, tinge, touch
=> pigment
=> imbue, hue
=> retouch
=> silver
=> grey, gray
=> tone
=> redden
=> mottle, streak, blotch
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb touch
Sense 4
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
Sense 12
allude, touch, advert
=> hint, suggest
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Sense 1
touch
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Sense 2
touch
=> perceive, comprehend
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Sense 3
touch, stir
=> affect, impress, move, strike
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Sense 5
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
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Sense 6
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> change, alter, modify
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Sense 7
touch
=> manage, deal, care, handle
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Sense 8
touch
=> touch
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Sense 9
reach, extend to, touch
=> be
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Sense 10
equal, touch, rival, match
=> compete, vie, contend
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Sense 11
touch, disturb
=> change, alter, modify
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Sense 13
touch
=> understand
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Sense 14
partake, touch
=> consume, ingest, take in, take, have
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Sense 15
tint, tinct, tinge, touch
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
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Grep of verb touch
get in touch
retouch
touch
touch-type
touch a chord
touch base
touch down
touch off
touch on
touch up
Grep of adj touch
touch-and-go
touchable
touched
touching
touchy
touchy-feely
Grep of adv touch
touchily
touchingly
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