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Touching

//ˈtʌt͡ʃɪŋ// adj, noun, prep, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.

    "a touching story"

  2. 2
    In direct contact with.
Adjective
  1. 1
    arousing affect wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is touched.

    "But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move."

  2. 2
    the act of putting two things together with no space between them wordnet
  3. 3
    A snack served with alcoholic drinks in an informal environment. India, in-plural
  4. 4
    the event of something coming in contact with the body wordnet
Preposition
  1. 1
    Regarding; concerning.

    "Now as touching things offered vnto idoles, wee know that wee all haue knowledge."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of touch form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English touchynge, equivalent to touch + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English touchynge, equivalent to touch + -ing.

Etymology 3

From Middle English touchynge, equivalent to touch + -ing.

Etymology 4

From Middle English touching, touchinge, touchynge, equivalent to touch + -ing.

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