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lose touch

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Definition of lose touch

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.

Word by Word Definitions

lose play

  1. : to bring to destruction

  2. : damn

  3. : to miss from one's possession or from a customary or supposed place

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touch play

  1. : to bring a bodily part into contact with especially so as to perceive through the tactile sense : handle or feel gently usually with the intent to understand or appreciate

  2. : to put hands upon in any way or degree

  3. : to take into the hands or mouth

  1. : the act or fact of touching

  2. : the special sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin or mucous membrane is perceived

  3. : a specified sensation that arises in response to stimulation of the tactile receptors : feel

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