touched

[ tuhcht ]
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adjective
  1. (of the mind or feelings) affected with emotion; moved, especially with sympathy or gratitude: They were very touched by your generosity.

  2. slightly crazy; unbalanced: touched in the head.

Origin of touched

1
First recorded in 1450–1500; late Middle English; see origin at touch, -ed2

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How to use touched in a sentence

  • Staring at the Wall was like staring at frustration itself, and it touched an anger in me that found its way into the book.

  • But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.

  • I wasn't paying any attention to him, therefore, when suddenly my left-hand neighbour touched my arm.

  • Now and then he touched one with his long and sallow fingers, lifted its cover, then let it drop mechanically.

    Bella Donna | Robert Hichens
  • One other illustration of this keen childish dialectic when face to face with the accuser deserves to be touched on.

    Children's Ways | James Sully
  • But more—he realised that the missing part of her was now astir, touched into life by another, and a younger, man.

    The Wave | Algernon Blackwood

British Dictionary definitions for touched

touched

/ (tʌtʃt) /


adjective(postpositive)
  1. moved to sympathy or emotion; affected

  2. showing slight insanity

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