lose touch

idiom

1

: to stop communicating with each other : to no longer know what is happening in each other's lives

They were friends in college, but then they moved to different cities and lost touch.

—often + with

She lost touch with her college roommate after graduation.

2

: to stop knowing what is happening, how certain people feel, etc.

—usually + with

I read the newspaper every morning so that I don't completely lose touch with what's happening in the world.

She seems to have lost touch with reality and thinks that she can have everything she wants.

Examples of lose touch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

People leave their campsites to avoid getting taken to jail, and in so doing, lose touch with the outreach workers trying to connect them with housing and other services. —Calmatters, Mercury News, 27 June 2025

Although virtue ethics and character development can be pursued without the morality label, doing so requires guarding against mechanistic or instrumental applications that lose touch with the essence of character development in virtue ethics. —Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025

The Consequence Every day, businesses lose touch with their audience. —Richard Jones, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025

In recent years, Sonos also began to lose touch with its customer experience. —John Towfighi, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for lose touch

• insomuch
• overmuch
• clutch
• crutch
• cutch
• dutch
• hutch
• much
• mutch
• such
• nonesuch
• retouch