fondle
verb (used with object)
to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress.
have fondled
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present perfectof fondle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Scorpion whom I have nurtured, traitor whom I have fondled, is this your bloody secret?
From Vera or, The Nihilists by Oscar Wilde
His full heart overflows in that sad cry of lamentation over the long-continued foiling of the efforts of a love that would fain have fondled and defended.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren
Gladly would she then have fondled him, but feared the venture; for, it seemed, were she to stoop, she must fall flat on the road, and never rise more.
From Mary Marston by George MacDonald
When I have fondled my old hound until he has been encouraged to paw my knees, and I have then thrust him down again, it has made me think of the Emperor and his ways.
From The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A host of book makers have fondled around them, but few have dared molest them, finding them so snugly ensconced under the sanctity of age, and the venerated opinions of learned and good men.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
