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Definition of Touched

1. Adjective. Having come into contact.

2. Adjective. Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion. "Very touched by the stranger's kindness"

3. Adjective. Slightly insane.

Definition of Touched

1. Adjective. Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by). ¹

2. Adjective. Slightly mentally deficient; touched in the head. ¹

3. Verb. (past of touch) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Touched

1. touch [v] - See also: touch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Touched

touch wood toucha touchable touchableness touchably touchas touchback touchbacks touchbox touchboxes

touchdown touchdown dance touchdown dances touchdowns touche touched (current term) touched(p) touched in the haid touched in the head touched up

toucher touchers touches touches up touchest toucheth touchhole touchholes touchier touchiest

Literary usage of Touched

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"... I was feverish to plunge in headlong and achieve a great reform here—until I saw the Mormon women. Then I was touched. My heart was wiser than my head. ..."

2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to by James Boswell (1884)
"3 It appears, by the newspapers of the time, that on the 3oth of March,, two hundred persons were touched by Queen Anne.— Wright. * Anecdotes, p. ..."

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