If you leave, I'll tell all the world you fondle me while I sleep.
Source: tatoeba (2530596)
Fondle
//ˈfɒndəl//
Synonyms for "fondle" (106 found)
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Verb(17 words)
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46 translations across 26 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- ledhatoj verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- përkëdhel verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Arabic
2 entries- رَبَتَ verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- لَاطَفَ verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Bulgarian
2 entries- галя verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- милвам verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Catalan
2 entries- acariciar verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- acaronar verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 愛撫 /爱抚 verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Czech
1 entries- laskat verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Dutch
1 entries- liefkozen verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Esperanto
1 entries- karesi verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Finnish
2 entries- hyväillä verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- kosketella verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
French
1 entries- caresser verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Galician
4 entries- acariciar verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- acariñar verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- afagar verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- aloumiñar verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
German
2 entries- kosen verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- liebkosen verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Irish
1 entries- muirnigh verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Italian
2 entries- accarezzare verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- avvinghiarsi verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Japanese
2 entries- 可愛がる verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- 愛撫する verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Korean
1 entries- 어르다 verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Latin
2 entries- contrectō verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- subigitō verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Māori
3 entries- mori verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- takamori verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- whakatākohekohe verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Portuguese
1 entries- acariciar verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Romanian
2 entries- dezmierda verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- mângâia verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Russian
3 entries- гла́дить verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- ласка́ть verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- ти́скать verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Slovene
1 entries- crkljati verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Spanish
3 entries- acariciar verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- cachondear verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- franelear verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Swedish
2 entries- kela med verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
- smeka verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Telugu
1 entries- నిమురు verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Welsh
1 entries- llochi verb (to touch or stroke lovingly)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Source: tatoeba (2976808)
Mothers fondle their babies.
Source: wiktionary
idly fondling the cat's ears
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.