"touch" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

touch verbo

touch + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 91
touch base • touch one's arm • touch one's hand • touch one's shoulder • touch one's face • touch one's cheek • touch one's lips • ...
verbo + touch
Kolokacji: 19
allowed to touch • want to touch • try to touch • avoid touching • seem to touch • ...
touch + preposición
Kolokacji: 48
touch down • touch upon • touch off • touch up • touched by • ...
touch + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 52
barely touch • lightly touch • gently touch • actually touch • hardly touch • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(1) barely, hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
1. barely touch = ledwie dotknięcie barely touch
2. hardly touch = ledwie dotknięcie hardly touch
  • Her feet had scarcely touched the floor the rest of the evening.
  • An empty land, where the hand of man had scarcely touched.
  • She half turned away from him and stared at the scarcely touched food on the table.
  • He expected nothing, and so the first stimulus from the ship scarcely more than touched him.
  • The voices arguing inside of her scarcely touched the outside.
  • The mother, who had scarcely touched her sons before they left, stood straight up and cried.
  • Herbert could eat little, and scarcely touched the glass of wine set before him.
  • The reality of that had scarcely touched her when a crash sounded.
  • He tossed it off, but the whiskey scarcely touched him.
  • I had scarcely touched the stew in the wooden bowl.
(2) lightly, gently, softly
Kolokacji: 3
(4) deeply, profoundly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) directly, indirectly, easily
Kolokacji: 3
(8) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(9) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(10) inappropriately, improperly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) oddly, strangely
Kolokacji: 2

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