Clues for the word "TOUCH"
We've had 52 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 85 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on May 17, 2026.
Definition of touch
- v. t. - To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
- v. t. - To perceive by the sense of feeling.
- v. t. - To come to; to reach; to attain to.
- v. t. - To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- v. t. - To relate to; to concern; to affect.
- v. t. - To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
- v. t. - To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
- v. t. - To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
- v. t. - To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- v. t. - To infect; to affect slightly.
- v. t. - To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
- v. t. - To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
- v. t. - To perform, as a tune; to play.
- v. t. - To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- v. t. - To harm, afflict, or distress.
- v. t. - To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
- v. t. - To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
- a. - To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
- v. i. - To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
- v. i. - To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
- v. i. - To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
- v. i. - To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- v. - The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
- v. - The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.
- v. - Act or power of exciting emotion.
- v. - An emotion or affection.
- v. - Personal reference or application.
- v. - A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
- v. - A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- v. - Feature; lineament; trait.
- v. - The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
- v. - A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
- v. - A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
- v. - A slight and brief essay.
- v. - A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
- v. - Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
- v. - The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.
- v. - The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- n. - That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
- n. - A boys' game; tag.
Referring Clues
- Slight amount
- Have an impact on
- Kind of typing
- Get to emotionally
- Come into contact with
- Word that can follow the first word of 17-, 34-, 43- and 64-Across
- One of the 50 Down
- Modicum
- Affect emotionally
- Tactile sense
- Go partner
- Certain sense
- Abut
- Contact
- iPod ___
- Go's partner
- Move emotionally
- One of the senses
- Make contact
- Feel
- Epeeist's score
- Practice one of the five senses
- Affect
- Black Keys "Your ___"
- Divinyls "I ___ Myself"
- Trace, contact and meet
- Ask for a loan - just a little
- Fencer's success
- Make contact, get in ___
- Feel a slight trace
- Stir the emotions, but only a little
- Make contact with
- Feel better
- Feel spot
- Contact that hurts me - possibly beats being on the outside
- Possibly out at church, we feel
- Pat or caress
- Affect just a little
- Contact causing a painful cry at the treatment centre
- Move the teeniest bit
- Ball contact, in soccer
- Caress
- "U Can't ___ This"
- Something you shouldn't do in an art museum
- A sense
- Fencer's score
- Last model in iPod's product line
- Have an emotional impact on
- Make contact, just a little
- See 66-Across
- One of the five senses
- Graze
Last Seen In
- New York Times - May 17, 2026
- Your Life Choices - May 04, 2026
- New York Times - April 12, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - March 17, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 10, 2026
- New York Times - August 21, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 03, 2025
- USA Today - January 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 31, 2024
- New York Times - June 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 24, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 02, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 15, 2023
- New York Times - May 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 21, 2023
- New York Times - February 16, 2023
- New York Times - February 12, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - November 04, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - January 30, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - January 27, 2018
- And in 55 more crossword puzzles...