Bear
Bear verb - To have a relation or connection.
Usage example: I just found another fact that bears on this issue
Touch
Touch verb - To be the business or affair of.
Usage example: I don't think this decision touches you, so butt out
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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A father bear takes his cub with him while roaming camp sites so people won't touch him believing he's a momma bear protecting her cub.
Source: Monster Is a Mommy -
The Masochism Tango: Brick apparently hates Maggie, and he can't even bear to touch her - but he says that he won't divorce her.
Source: Theatre / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -
Shotgun Suzie from Nightside can't bear to touch or be touched, due to ugly events in her childhood.
Source: Hates Being Touched
Cite this Source
Touch and Bear. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/touch
Bear & Touch. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/touch>.
Touch or Bear. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/touch.
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