contact
/ˈkɑntækt/ verb A2- To touch; to come into physical contact with. · The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
- To establish communication with (something or someone). · I am trying to contact my sister.
He/she/it contacts · Past contacted · Past participle contacted · -ing form contacting
Verb forms
- Base form
- contact
- He/she/it
- contacts
- Past
- contacted
- Past participle
- contacted
- -ing form
- contacting
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Each time he had been brought into contact with his father, something terrible had happened.
d’Épinay into personal contact.
None of this had escaped the count, and even by this mere contact of individuals the scene had already acquired considerable interest for an observer.
However, among all the incoherent details given to me by the Abbé Busoni and by Lord Wilmore, by that friend and that enemy, one thing appears certain and clear in my opinion—that in no period, in no case, in no circumstance, could there have been any contact between him and me.”
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