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touch on

touch on verb: to mention briefly; to cursorily discuss.

Verb

touch on (third-person singular simple present touches on, present participle touching on, simple past and past participle touched on)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To mention briefly; to cursorily discuss.
    • We touched on the subject of wages, but we didn't reach a conclusion.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To come or go to for a short time.
    • I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts.1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

touch on meaning in Malayalam and Indonesian

touch on in Malayalam

mention, refer to, comment on
സ്പർശിക്കുക, പരാമർശിക്കുക, പരാമർശം നടത്തുക, സൂചിപ്പിക്കുക, അഭിപ്രായം പറയുക, അഭിപ്രായപ്പെടുക
come close to, verge on, border on
അടുത്തു വരുക, വക്കിലെത്തുക, അരുകിലെത്തുക, അടുത്തെത്തുക, സമീപിക്കുക

touch on in Indonesian

mention briefly
singgung

Forms of touch on

third-person singular presenttouches on
present participletouching on
past participletouched on
pasttouched on
alternative formtouch upon

Questions about touch on

What does touch on mean?
Touch on means to mention briefly; to cursorily discuss.
What is touch on in Malayalam?
Touch on in Malayalam is സ്പർശിക്കുക, പരാമർശിക്കുക, പരാമർശം നടത്തുക. See Touch on meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is touch on?
Touch on is a verb.
What is the past tense of touch on?
The past tense of touch on is touched on.

Words near touch on in the dictionary

  1. touch move
  2. touch of the 'tism
  3. touch of the tar brush
  4. touch of the tarbrush
  5. touch off
  6. touch on
  7. touch one's forelock
  8. touch oneself
  9. touch out
  10. touch pad
  11. touch pads

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: touch on (page history and authors); touch on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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