Supported and Touching

Supported

Supported adjective - Held up or having the weight borne especially from below.

Touching and supported are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Touching" instead an adverb "Supported".

Touching

Touching adjective - Having a border in common.

Supported and touching are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Supported" instead an adverb "Touching".

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

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • This is further supported by Nunnally receiving visions of Lelouch's memories upon touching him after his assassination, encouraging the theory that Lelouch absorbed his father's Code during his final confrontation with him, becoming immortal upon getting impaled rather than dying.
  • Both camps tend to cite a plethora of examples from episodes as to which ship is better supported by canon, despite the fact that the show contains roughly equal amounts of unintentional innuendo from Hannibal, and inappropriate touching by Murdock.
  • The proper term is "anchor's aweigh," which means nearly the opposite of the former — the anchor is being raised and has just reached the point of being supported by the anchor cable but still touching the bottom; the ship is about to leave port.
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Touching and Supported. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/supported/touching
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