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26 touch
If you say that someone is a soft touch or an easy touch, you mean that they can easily be persuaded to lend you money or to do things for you. (INFORMAL)
Mr Wilson is no soft touch.
Pamela was an easy touch when she needed some cash.
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If you touch something, you put your hand onto it in order to feel it or to make contact with it.
Her tiny hands gently touched my face.
Don't touch that dial.
She reached down, touching her toes with opposite hands.
The virus is not passed on through touching or shaking hands.
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Also a noun.
Sometimes even a light touch on the face is enough to trigger off this pain.
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If two things are touching, or if one thing touches another, or if you touch two things, their surfaces come into contact with each other.
Their knees were touching .
A cyclist crashed when he touched wheels with another rider.
If my arm touches the wall, it has to be washed again.
In some countries people stand close enough to touch elbows.
He touched the cow's side with his stick.
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Your sense of touch is your ability to tell what something is like when you feel it with your hands.
The evidence suggests that our sense of touch is programmed to diminish with age.
...boys and girls who are blind and who want to be able to read and write by touch.
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