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to the touch

to the touch prepositional phrase: feeling a certain way when touched.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Feeling a certain way when touched.
    • soft to the touch, smooth to the touch

Questions about to the touch

What does to the touch mean?
To the touch means feeling a certain way when touched.
What part of speech is to the touch?
To the touch is a prepositional phrase.

Words near to the touch in the dictionary

  1. to the rescue
  2. to the T
  3. to the tee
  4. to the tonsils
  5. to the top of one's bent
  6. to the touch
  7. to the tune of
  8. to the turn of a hair
  9. to the victor belong the spoils
  10. to the victor go the spoils
  11. to the victor the spoils

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