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# fondle

«fondle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to touch or stroke them gently and lovingly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (fondles, fondled, fondling)

### meaning for a pupil

To fondle someone is to touch or stroke them gently and lovingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fondle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a parent or kind person stroking a child

### examples

- Then she kissed and fondled her child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fondle/#x1)
- The old woman began to fondle the Prince with the utmost delight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fondle/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fondle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fondle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.