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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight |
| Synonyms: | altercate, attack, battle, brawl, break with, buck, compete, conflict, contend, cross, defend, duel, feud, fight over, gang up on, hassle, knuckle with, lay a finger on, lay out, put on gloves, put up dukes, quarrel, repel, rival, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, sock, square off, strike, struggle, take on, tilt, traverse, vie, withstand, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree |
| Main Entry: | palpate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch |
| Synonyms: | abut, adjoin, be in contact, border, brush, butt on, caress, come together, communicate, contact, converge, dab, examine, feel, feel up, finger*, fondle, frisk, glance, graze, grope, handle*, hit*, impinge upon, inspect, join, kiss, lay a finger on, lick*, line, manipulate, march, massage, meet, neighbor, osculate, palm, partake, pat, paw, percuss, pet, probe, push*, reach, rub, scrutinize, sip, smooth*, strike, stroke, suck, sweep, tag*, tap, taste, thumb, tickle, tip, toy, verge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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attingent, close to, contactual, conterminous, contiguous, end to end, hand to hand, haptic, in contact, intractible, itching, lambent, libant, osculatory, palpable, pertingent, tactile, tactual, tangential, tangible, touching, with no interval
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| Concept: | [Sensation of pressure] Touch. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; touch |
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-nouns
touch; tact, taction, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation; manipulation; massage., [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus.
-verbs
touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.
-adjectives
tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent. [more]
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