Crossword clues for touched
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Touch \Touch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Touched; p. pr. & vb. n. Touching.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen, akin to E. tug. See Tuck, v. t., Tug, and cf. Tocsin, Toccata.]
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly.
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To perceive by the sense of feeling.
Nothing but body can be touched or touch.
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To come to; to reach; to attain to.
The god, vindictive, doomed them never more Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore.
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To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. [Obs.]
Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed.
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To relate to; to concern; to affect.
The quarrel toucheth none but us alone.
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To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse.
--Chaucer. To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
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To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften; especially, to cause feelings of pity, compassion, sympathy, or gratitude in.
What of sweet before Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this and harsh.
--Milton.The tender sire was touched with what he said.
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To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.
--Pope. To infect; to affect slightly.
--Bacon.-
To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch it.
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To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
[They] touched their golden harps.
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To perform, as a tune; to play.
A person is the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet.
--Sir W. Scott. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. `` No decree of mine, . . . [to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will,''
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To harm, afflict, or distress.
Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee.
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To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
She feared his head was a little touched.
--Ld. Lytton. (Geom.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
To compare with; to be equal to; -- usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire. [Colloq.]
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To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from. [Slang]
To touch a sail (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
To touch the wind (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the wind as possible.
To touch up, to repair; to improve by touches or emendation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stirred emotionally," mid-14c., past participle adjective from touch (v.).
Wiktionary
1 Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by). 2 Slightly mentally deficient; touched in the head. v
(en-past of: touch)
WordNet
adj. being colored slightly; sometimes used in combination; "white petals touched with pink"; "the resplendent sun-touched flag"; "pink-tinged apple blossoms" [syn: tinged]
having come into contact [ant: untouched]
slightly insane [syn: fey, touched(p)]
emotionally affected; "very touched by the stranger's kindness" [syn: affected(p), stirred(p), touched(p)]
Wikipedia
"Touched" is the 20th episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Touched may refer to:
Touched is the debut full-length album by drone doom band Nadja, it was first released in May 2003 by Deserted Factory Records. This album was made when Nadja was still a solo effort of Aidan Baker's, prior to when Leah Buckareff joined Nadja in 2005.
The album was re-issued by Alien8 recordings on March 13, 2007, with extended songs (except in the case of 'Stays Demons'), and remastered with an untitled bonus track at the end of "Flowers of Flesh". The digital edition released via Bandcamp, however, considers the untitled track as part of 'Flowers of Flesh'.
Touched is a 1983 film directed by John Flynn.
Touched is a Michael Sweet solo album released in 2007. Unlike most of Sweet's previous albums, the album is derived in a classical sound rather than his usual rock or metal sound. The album was dedicated to his wife, Kyle, who was suffering from stage-four ovarian cancer.
Touched has a collection of covers from other musicians including Billy Preston, and Billy Joel, as well as some classical versions of some of Stryper's ballads, and an all original song called "My Love, My Life, My Flame".
Touched is a play by English playwright Stephen Lowe.
The play opened at the Nottingham Playhouse on 9 June 1977, directed by Richard Eyre. It was revived at the Royal Court in January 1981, in a new production by William Gaskill. Both productions starred Marjorie Yates as Sandra. The play was joint winner of the George Devine Award in 1977.
In February 2006, it was one of the fifty plays chosen by the Royal Court to represent the fifty-year history of the English Stage Company with readings in the Theatre Upstairs - Look Back: 50 readings, 50 writers, 50 plays. The rehearsed reading of Touched took place on 22 February 2006, with Anne-Marie Duff as Sandra. Nick Hern Books published a new edition of the play to coincide with this production, with a new afterword by Lowe.
The play has been revived many times by regional theatres in England, including Derby Playhouse and Salisbury Playhouse, and colleges, including RADA and Canterbury College in February 2011.
Usage examples of "touched".
His shaft filled her, until she was abrim with him, so deep he touched her very womb.
The Acceptor probed and touched and caressed this new region of space with its farflung senses.
How could this most affectionate of human beings not have been touched by serious thoughts of love, by fires of desire during these years of womanly awakening?
Now Henri, in plain white sewn with silver aiglettes, his black hair shining, looking well, touched the Book, kissed the Cross and was taking the oath.
Azhure warily reached out a hand and touched the Alaunt on its massive forehead.
This time the glowing drops vanished as they touched Alec, leaving a faint tingling sensation in their wake.
Almost immediately after Amity asked her question his fingers touched a slanting rafter.
Carefully, warily, Ancar knelt beside him and touched him, extending his own battered probes to the mind and the potentials within that mind.
On each cane shaft, tied behind the iron arrowhead, was a tuft of unravelled hemp rope that had been soaked in pitch, which spluttered and then burned fiercely when touched with the slow-match, The archers loosed their arrows, which sailed up in a high, flaming parabola and dropped down to peg into the timbers of an anchored vessel.
Martin touched another control and annotations appeared, pointing out a black circle within the dark bubble and indicating its diameter, just a bit bigger than Jupiter.
But then she shook herself with some of her old briskness and touched his arbalest with a faint smile.
With the exception of his wife and Vane a few seconds ago, Dante never touched an Arcadian by choice.
But in the circumstances of the time even they could not but be touched by the Hellenic mode of thought, to the effect of associating a speculative theory with asceticism, and thus approximating to Gnosticism.
The ancient rituals touched the heart, and made the attendees laugh out loud.
She went to church three times a week, read her Bible atwixt and between, and swore lips that touched liquor would never touch hers.