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# touched

«touched» in Mova's school dictionary: **put a hand or part of the body on something, or came into…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, past form of touch (touch, touches, touched, touching); adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Touched means put a hand or part of the body on something, or came into contact with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#m1)

2) Touched (adjective) means feeling grateful and moved because someone was kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#m2)

3) Touched on means mentioned briefly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#m3)

4) Touched (old-fashioned, informal) means a little crazy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In hygiene, think about what you have touched: wash hands after touching animals, raw meat, rubbish or the toilet. In body safety lessons, you have the right to say no to being touched in a way you don't like, and to tell a trusted adult. In stories, a character who is touched feels warmth because of a kind act. In maths geometry, lines or shapes that touch meet at a point. Phrases: touched by, deeply touched, touched down (landed), touched on.

### examples

- I touched the snow and it was cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#x1)
- Wash your hands after you've touched the hamster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#x2)
- I was touched by your kind card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#x3)
- The plane touched down safely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#x4)
- The teacher touched on fractions briefly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#x5)
- Nobody should touch you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#x6)
- The circle touched the line at one point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#x7)
- He touched it and felt something hard within. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touched/#x8)

### note

Pronounced "tucht", one syllable. "Touched" (moved by kindness) is a nice feeling, not a sad one. In maths, a line that just touches a circle at one point is called a tangent.

### In the corpora

- [Happy tears come when people are moved, touched or very happy; they pass quickly and leave people feeling warm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/20/)
- [Porcupines cannot shoot their quills; the barbed quills come out easily when touched and stick into the attacker.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/7/)
- [A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/6/)
- [Pull one thread and the whole web moves, like a spider's web when one strand is touched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food/5/)
- [A stick insect sways like a twig in the wind and drops to the floor stiff as a stick when touched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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