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Fittingly, Bruyneel demanded the tester's blood, urine, and hair samples, in what had to be the most fitting use of the French word touché in the history of spoken language.

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  1. transitive verb To cause or permit a part of the body, especially the hand or fingers, to come in contact with so as to feel: reached out and touched the smooth stone.
  2. transitive verb To bring something into light contact with: touched the sore spot with a probe.
  3. transitive verb To bring (one thing) into light contact with something else: grounded the radio by touching a wire to it; touching fire to a fuse.
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  • Another touch is the paint job--if a craftsman's brush went a little off course, the mistake went uncorrected. —  Omni: August 1994
  • It caused me to arch upward and he gave a stifled scream, flinching as if my touch was actually painful. —  EmbracetheNight
  • The scars of your touch are already faded, but the pain of your absence would always linger . —  Prince of the Night
  • It's just the kind of thing this joker will use to The Legionnaire surged forward, catching and controlling O'Donnel's sword with his own weapon, moving the deadly defending point to one side with a flick of his wrist while slamming his own point squarely into his opponent's mask BZZZ Halt The major turned his back on the proceedings, shaking his arms and rotating his shoulders as the touch was awarded He had tightened up! —  Phule 01 - Phules Company
  • Three to two now The major was waiting at the on-guard line as the touch was awarded, eager for the bout to resume before his opponent had a chance to analyze the hole in his defense Fencers ready Ready Ready, Sir Allez! —  Phule 01 - Phules Company
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feel ·  tone ·  hint ·  gesture ·  kind ·  bite ·  suggestion ·  appearance ·  vision ·  note ·  beauty

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touch:   touches ·  touching ·  touched
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English touchen, from Old French touchier, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *toccāre.

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  1. from Middle English touchen, towchen, from Old French toucher, tocher, French toucher =Provencal tocar, tochar, toquar =Spanish Portuguese tocar =Italian toccare, prob. from Old Teutonic *tukkōn, represented by Old High German zucchen, zukken, Middle High German zucken, zücken, German zucken, zücken, draw with quick motion, twitch (an intrusive formation from ziehen), Goth, tiuhan =Old High German ziohan, etc., Anglo-Saxon teón, draw: see tee, and cf. tuck and tick.
  2. from Middle English touche; from touch, v.
 

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