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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
untouched
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leaving...untouched
▪ He rose from the table, leaving his brandy untouched.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Milford, in the Derwent valley just south of Belper, is a complete and almost untouched late eighteenth-century industrial village.
▪ People in this beautiful, airy town, almost untouched by the war, feel dishonored by the international scandal.
▪ The problems of rural housing went almost untouched.
▪ The same system of privileges survives almost untouched.
▪ She was given a dry Martini, which she hated and put down almost untouched on a table when nobody was looking.
largely
▪ This little community is still in existence, largely untouched by the march of time.
▪ Yet, because the technology of the war was at a low level then, the land itself was largely untouched.
▪ This is indeed the landscape of one's dreams, a paradise still largely untouched and unspoiled by the activities of man.
▪ The ideology of what it was proper for women to do remained largely untouched.
▪ The area is as yet largely untouched by the ugliness of mass afforestation and still a paradise for lovers of the outdoors.
▪ In other words they are continuing to operate in their separate ways, largely untouched one by the other.
▪ Most factories and other export earners were largely untouched by the floods.
relatively
▪ Apart from this, Prague was relatively untouched, visually, by the war.
▪ Open office floors are relatively untouched.
▪ Mercifully there are regions, east and north of Central Station, relatively untouched.
virtually
▪ The fish, virtually untouched by humans in 50 years, lined up to bite our hooks when we went fishing.
▪ As a result, the great wealth and resources of the Church were left virtually untouched by government taxation.
▪ One of the tanks has been planted and left to grow virtually untouched for about twenty years.
▪ Clare had eaten half her beans, but Becky's and her own were virtually untouched.
▪ Inside, the house is virtually untouched since that date.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most valuables were left untouched, but file cabinets had been emptied and searched.
▪ The guests has disappeared and the food was untouched.
▪ We managed to leave our savings untouched when we bought the new car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And this great country, which nurtured all of us, has not been left untouched.
▪ Apart from this, Prague was relatively untouched, visually, by the war.
▪ Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.
▪ Otherwise the body was untouched, the journalist said.
▪ The fish, virtually untouched by humans in 50 years, lined up to bite our hooks when we went fishing.
▪ The mean wastage rate therefore is 37.5 %, which gives us a figure for last year of 375m untouched desserts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
untouched

late 14c., "not been physically contacted," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of touch (v.). Meaning "unharmed, uninjured" is from c.1400; that of "not used at all" is from 1530s; sense of "unmoved emotionally" is from 1610s.

Wiktionary
untouched

a. Remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged. alt. Remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged.

WordNet
untouched

  1. adj. still full; "an untouched cocktail in her hand" [syn: untasted]

  2. not influenced or affected; "stewed in its petty provincialism untouched by the brisk debates that stirred the old world"- V.L.Parrington; "unswayed by personal considerations" [syn: uninfluenced, unswayed]

  3. not having come in contact [ant: touched]

  4. not touched emotionally; "was left untouched by the music" [syn: unaffected(p), untouched(p)]

Wikipedia
Untouched

Untouched may refer to

  • "Untouched" (Angel), an episode of the television series Angel
  • "Untouched" (song), a 2007 song by The Veronicas
  • a type of pirated movie release; see Pirated movie release types#Release formats
Untouched (Angel)

"Untouched" is episode 4 of season 2 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB network. In this episode, a vision from Cordelia leads Angel to Bethany, a runaway teen who possesses barely controlled telekinetic powers. Unbeknownst to Angel, Lilah has brought Bethany to Los Angeles, hoping to groom her into being an assassin for Wolfram & Hart. Lilah attempts to provoke violent episodes in Bethany in order for Wolfram and Hart to gain control of the teen. First she has her cornered in an alley by potential rapists hired by Wolfram and Hart, and then she has her sexually abusive father appear and try to take Bethany back home. Meanwhile, Darla continues to plague Angel's dreams and Angel finds himself sleeping longer and longer hours.

Untouched (song)

"Untouched" is a song by Australian recording group The Veronicas, which is featured on their second studio album Hook Me Up (2007). The song was written by Jessica and Lisa Origliasso, and Toby Gad and was produced by Gad as well. It was released as the second single from the band's album in Australia on 10 December 2007, and the first single in the UK and US.

"Untouched" received generally positive reviews from music critics, which applauded the departure from their previous music, with some highlighting it as the album's standout track and comparing it to the work of Pink and Avril Lavigne. The song was commercially successful worldwide, as the song reached number seventeen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's only top twenty there and was known as their breakthrough single. The song also peaked at number eight in the UK, number two in their native Australia, number nine in New Zealand and at number one in Ireland. The song was certified platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), selling over one million shipments there.

An accompanying music video was released for the single, directed by Anthony Rose, where it was shot in Sydney, Australia. The video starts with a lot of pictures in the hallway. The video received generally positive reviews, having over 37 million hits on YouTube, remaining the group's highest viewing video. The song was featured in 90210 and then in Hellcats and also featured in EA Sports game, FIFA 09. The song has also been nominated for different awards, being nominated for Highest Selling Single at the ARIA Music Awards and nominated for Favorite Song at the Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards.

Usage examples of "untouched".

His heart still bore the burthen of its sorrow, and he felt more sure of the sympathy of the afflicted mourner, than of one who looked untouched by any adversity.

Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, who hath vouchsafed to choose you to an espousalship like that of the blessed Mary, mother of our Lord, Jesus Christ - ad beatae Mariae matris Domini nostri Jesus Christ consortium - hallow you, that in the presence of God and of His angels, you may persevere, untouched and undefiled, and hold to your purpose, love, chastity, and keep patience that you may merit to receive the crown of His blessing, through the same Christ our Lord.

The barbarians had overgrazed the few fields the peasants had left untouched, turning them into bleak patches of ground.

His patrimonial acres and heirlooms remain indeed untouched, because the court of chancery have deemed it necessary to appoint a receiver to secure their faithful transmission to the next heir.

Lord Saltwood, realizing that he had hit the finest pistol-shot in town and was himself untouched, was for a moment in danger of collapsing in a swoon.

His name was Piston, and he, like the building and the ancient press and the untouched libraries upstairs and down, came with the deal.

On the table, in the middle of the room, the samovar was boiling and there stood a full but untouched and forgotten glass of tea.

Which done, she sayd these words of course as follow : Behold, his nose is whole, his eyes safe, his eares without scarre, his lips untouched, and his chin sound : all which was written and noted in tables, and subscribed with the hands of witnesses to confirme the same.

Gwendolyn was aware by that time that the DeMont fortune had in truth become the Spanning fortune, with, as I say, only the lands themselves untouched.

Even the most devout priest can get enough of talk about religion, especially when it is untouched by theological stringency, or mystical insight.

They only went suborbital, and their ammonia tanks were frequently untouched on landing.

Guild adamantly maintained should stay sacrosanct, untouched by human influence, uncontaminated by human presence.

How SUMMER 1995773 could we have raised up these despairing children, dispossessed, who felt from their first moments there was no place on earth for them, who were untouched, unsaved by any tradition of human nobility?

It is far better, when there is no question of stability but only of appearance, to leave the old stonework, even though much decayed, as it is, unscraped, untouched by the chisel, and where strength is needed to put in frankly nineteenth-century work, which could never by any possibility be mistaken for part of the original building.

Tam had brought in still stood by the fireplace, miraculously unspilled and untouched.