Know and Touch

Know

Know verb - To have a practical understanding of.

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Touch and know are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Touch" instead a verb "Know".

Nearby Words: knowing, known

Touch verb - To come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin.

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Know and touch are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Know" instead a verb "Touch".

Nearby Words: touched, touchy, touching, toucher, touchable

person	know person	touch person
part	know part	touch part
stuff	know stuff	touch stuff
someone	know someone	touch someone
Other words: way, nothing, anyone.

Unfortunately, a side-effect of the latter is that he loses all sense of touch, taste and smell after a couple of hours - he describes it as being numb instead of being tough, like God didn't know when to stop with the Novocaine.

Source: Required Secondary Powers / Comic Books
This comes off a touch better in retrospect once Lucy's educated but sheltered backstory is known, as at the time she probably wouldn't know just what the average citizen knows and has reason to expect there are a lot of topics she'd know more about (this just isn't one of them).

Source: As You Know
In a nice touch, the highly trained Force users can sense that things are not as they should be, though they don't quite know what is going on.

Source: For Want Of A Nail / Comic Books

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