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What is the verb for touch?

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touch
  1. Primarily physical senses.
    1. (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with. [from 14th c.]
    2. (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect. [from 14th c.]
    3. (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact. [from 14th c.]
    4. (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing. [from 14th c.]
    5. (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact. [from 14th c.]
    6. (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context. [from 15th c.]
    7. (transitive) To consume, or otherwise use. [from 15th c.]
    8. (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at). [from 16th c.]
    9. (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs. [from 17th c.]
    10. (intransitive, obsolete) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
    11. (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
    12. (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
    13. (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
  2. Primarily non-physical senses.
    1. (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality. [from 14th c.]
    2. (transitive, archaic) To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to. [from 14th c.]
    3. (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something). [from 14th c.]
    4. (transitive) To concern, to have to do with. [14th-19th c.]
    5. (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in. [from 14th c.]
    6. (transitive, dated) To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly. [from 16th c.]
    7. (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre. [from 17th c.]
    8. (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend). [from 18th c.]
    9. (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head". [from 18th c.]
    10. (transitive) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality. [from 19th c.]
    11. (computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
  3. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  4. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  5. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
  6. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
  7. To perform, as a tune; to play.
  8. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “I allowed my hands to touch the plush silken sheets, admiring its softness.”
      “He reached out to touch her hand from across the table as their eyes locked.”
      “In my dreams, I run hard, but my feet don't quite touch the ground, and so I don't actually move.”
touched
touching
touches
toucheth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of touch
touchest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of touch
toucht
  1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of touch
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