Equate
Touch
Touch verb - Be equal to in quality or ability.
Usage example: Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues
Common collocations
| enemy | equate enemy | touch enemy |
Both words in one sentence
- Please note that psychopaths are completely in touch with reality and are highly rational; this takes a break from many media representations which seem to equate psychopathy with psychosis.
Source: Hollywood Psych -
The page image, above, comes from a commercial for Chesapeake Bank of Maryland, which implies that larger banks, here represented as "Big Bank", are so out of touch with their customers that they equate giving out items like the toaster with customer service.
Source: Bank Toaster
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