kiss
verb (used with object)
to touch or press with the lips slightly pursed, and then often to part them and to emit a smacking sound, in an expression of affection, love, greeting, reverence, etc..
have kissed
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present perfectof kiss.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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Most of us have had someone we've loved who has died and may have been there holding their hand, might have kissed them on the head and left them for their last hours.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
That lone point might have seemed a consolation to the Kraken back in October or November, but on Monday it would have kissed the death right into them.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
How many people have kissed their beloved, embraced far-flung relatives or held squirming kids still for a picture beneath that 150-year-old banyan tree now turned to ash?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
He would have kissed me on the forehead, or on the cheek, and told me that this was why the world needed Arete, in the first place, for people like me.
From Slate ● May 27, 2023
She could have kissed him, blotchy skin and broken veins and all.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
