单词 | touch on |
释义 | touch on (once / 1703 pages) 1v 2v 3v WORD FAMILY touch on: touched on, touches on, touching on USAGE EXAMPLESThese culture-war fights touch on some of the deepest political issues of our time, even if the trappings are frivolous. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Down the hall in the preschool rooms, Mark Hernandez helped his grandson Joseph Beourgeois, 5, put the finishing touches on a snowman. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The meeting, which lasted 15 minutes, did not touch on more contentious issues like immigration. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 v refer to or discuss briefly 2Hyper advert, bring up, cite, mention, name, refer make reference to 1v be relevant to Syn|Hypo bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch advert, allude, touch make a more or less disguised reference to center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around center upon apply, go for, holdbe pertinent or relevant or applicable affect, involve, regardconnect closely and often incriminatingly interest, matter tobe of importance or consequence implicatebring into intimate and incriminating connection fascinate, intriguecause to be interested or curious 2v have an effect upon 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch strike a blow affect adversely repercusscause repercussions; have an unwanted effect tell onproduce an effect or strain on somebody redoundhave an effect for good or ill excite, stimulateact as a stimulant process, treatsubject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition hydrolise, hydrolizemake a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis color, colour, distort, tingeaffect as in thought or feeling endanger, expose, peril, queer, scupperput in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position hit, strikeaffect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely subjectcause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, troubleto cause inconvenience or discomfort to act upon, influence, workhave and exert influence or effect slam-dunkmake a forceful move against propagatecause to propagate, as by grafting or layering bacterise, bacterizesubject to the action of bacteria iodise, iodizetreat with iodine nitratetreat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate tanktreat in a tank aerate, oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenizeimpregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen mercerise, mercerizetreat to strengthen and improve the luster malttreat with malt or malt extract fluoridate, fluoridise, fluoridizesubject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride creosotetreat with creosote chlorinatetreat or combine with chlorine carbonatetreat with carbon dioxide camphoratetreat with camphor bromate, brominatetreat with bromine ammoniatetreat with ammonia irradiate, rayexpose to radiation scaldtreat with boiling water invigorate, quickengive life or energy to refinetreat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition innervatestimulate to action irritateexcite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus nitrify, nitrogenise, nitrogenizetreat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound reverberatetreat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace currytreat by incorporating fat seedsprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain dosetreat with an agent; add (an agent) to sulfur, sulphurtreat with sulphur in order to preserve vulcanise, vulcanizesubject to vulcanization chrometreat with a chromium compound bituminise, bituminizetreat with bitumen Agenise, Agenizeage or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride) runcause to perform carboxylatetreat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid saccharifyconvert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate beneficiateprocess (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction prejudice, prepossessinfluence (somebody's) opinion in advance compromiseexpose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute digestconvert food into absorbable substances vitriolexpose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol putcause (someone) to undergo something shipwreckcause to experience shipwreck refractsubject to refraction exposeexpose or make accessible to some action or influence exposeexpose to light, of photographic film fume, fumigatetreat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests air-conditioncontrol the humidity and temperature of form, imprintestablish or impress firmly in the mind militatehave force or influence; bring about an effect or change manipulate, pull strings, pull wiresinfluence or control shrewdly or deviously color, colourmodify or bias swing, swing overinfluence decisively blackjack, blackmail, pressureexert pressure on someone through threats carry, persuade, swaywin approval or support for get atinfluence by corruption fixinfluence an event or its outcome by illegal means distress, straitenbring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship dominatebe in control incurmake oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation v restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore break, bust ruin completely break, bust, fall apart, wear, wear outgo to pieces fiddle, tinker try to fix or mend fillplug with a substance patch, piecerepair by adding pieces cobblerepair or mend point, repointrepair the joints of bricks trouble-shoot, troubleshootsolve problems patch, patch upmend by putting a patch on resole, soleput a new sole on revamp, vampprovide (a shoe) with a new vamp heel, reheelput a new heel on darnrepair by sewing close, fill upfill or stop up ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better |
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