touched
/tʌt͡ʃt/ adjective A2- Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by). · I was touched that he should remember my birthday.
- Slightly mentally deficient; touched in the head.
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“‘The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and the religious institutions of his country, that one named Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been the bearer of a letter from Murat to the usurper, and again taken charge of another letter from the usurper to the Bonapartist club in Paris.
Where her lips touched the girl they left a round, shining mark, as Dorothy found out soon after.
The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: “If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!”
He ran home and told his Mother, saying, “Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently.” “That was just why it stung you,” said his Mother.
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