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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A gentle touch or gesture of fondness, tenderness, or love.
  2. v. To touch or stroke in an affectionate or loving manner.
  3. v. To touch or move as if with a caress: soft music that caressed the ears.
  4. v. To treat fondly, kindly, or favorably; cherish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An act of endearment; an expression of affection by touch, as by stroking or patting with the hand: as, “conjugal caresses,”
  2. To bestow caresses upon; fondle.
  3. Hence— To treat with fondness, affection, or kindness.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle.
  2. v. To show and act on deep closeness shared with another person.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
  2. v. To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it)
  2. v. touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner

Etymologies

  1. French caresse, from Italian carezza, from caro, dear, from Latin cārus; see kā- in Indo-European roots.

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