to touch
- verb
- /tʌtʃ/
- Welcome to the Lady Claudia Maria, former wife of Lucius Caius Marius whose recent execution touched us all deeply.
- emotionally touched
- touch a life
- touched by tragedy
How many people can I serve, reach, touch, inspire.
- How many people can I serve, reach, touch, inspire.
- Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.
- I can express, I can touch people in a certain way.
- Every single thing you touch is impacted by your story.
- It doesn't touch us the way that other things do.
- I found out very early that money couldn't touch how I felt about myself.
- No, But whatever audience it touches, it's going to touch really deeply.
- That emptiness is not touched by the heartbeat.
Examples
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The story touched my heart and made me reflect on my own life.
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Or are you so used to it by now that nothing really touches you?
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What if you had the chance to not only touch history, but create it?
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How many people can I serve, reach, touch, inspire.
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Every single thing you touch is impacted by your story.
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Daniel was a man who touched many of us here today, including me.
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Before you can inspire, before you can touch, you must first connect.
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Years ago, my life was touched by tragedy.
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I want to scale and touch just an untold number of lives.
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Israel's struggles against its implacable opponents also touch many responsive chords around the world.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
To suddenly make someone feel a strong emotion
To cause a change in a person or thing
Make someone feel strong emotions
To have a strong effect on someone or something
To make someone feel a strong emotion
To make someone suddenly understand how serious something is
Make someone feel upset or defensive by mentioning a sensitive subject
Feeling very sad or moved by something
Make someone feel strong emotion or sympathy
To make a person feel a strong emotion
To make someone feel a strong personal connection
Idioms
- Informal
Make someone feel upset or defensive by mentioning a sensitive subject
- Archaic
To tell viewers or listeners to keep watching and not change the channel during a break in the show
- Archaic
Tell someone not to change the radio or television channel before a show returns
Refuse to be involved with people or things that seem dangerous and dishonest
- Slur
A rude slang way to say someone shows small signs of autism and may offend people
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A version of American football where players touch the player with the ball to stop them instead of tackling
A form of football where another player stops someone by touching them with both hands
- Specialized
A plant with seed pods that burst when you touch them and release seeds
- Australian
Touch football where another player touches someone twice to tackle them
- Jargon
A practice where soccer players control and pass the ball using two touches
- Jargon
A football exercise where each player may touch the ball only twice before passing
How Moved
Surface Forms
Etymology
Touch comes from the old French toucher, originally 'to strike' or 'to feel with the hand', and by a small step this idea came to mean 'to move someone's feelings', which is why something can touch you emotionally.