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touch

touch - verb

To bring the hands or fingers, for example, into contact with so as to give or receive a physical sensation: feel, finger, handle, palpate. See touch.
To bring into or make contact with: contact. See touch.
To be contiguous or next to: abut, adjoin, border, bound, butt, join, meet, neighbor, verge. See near.
To be equal or alike: compare, correspond, equal, match, measure up, parallel. Informal stack up. See same.
To call or direct attention to something. advert, bring up, mention, point, point out, refer. See words.
To evoke a usually strong mental or emotional response from: affect, get(to), impress, move, strike. See touch.

To come to rest on the ground: alight, land, light, set down, settle. See move.

To release or cause to release energy suddenly and violently, especially with a loud noise: blast, blow(up), burst, detonate, explode, fire, fulminate, go off. See explosion.
To be the cause of: bring, bring about, bring on, cause, effect, effectuate, generate, induce, ingenerate, lead to, make, occasion, result in, secure, set off, stir(up), trigger. See start.
To stir to action or feeling: egg on, excite, foment, galvanize, goad, impel, incite, inflame, inspire, instigate, motivate, move, pique, prick, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, set off, spur, stimulate, trigger, work up. See cause. excite.

An act of touching: feeling, palpation. See touch.
A coming together so as to be touching: contact, contingence. See touch.
The faculty or ability to perceive tactile stimulation: feel, feeling, tactility. See touch.
A particular sensation conveyed by means of physical contact: feel, feeling. See touch.
A slight amount or indication: breath, dash, ghost, hair, hint, intimation, semblance, shade, shadow, soupçon, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taste, tinge, trace, whiff, whisper. Informal whisker. See big. show.
A situation allowing exchange of ideas or messages: communication, contact, intercommunication. See connect. touch.