Handled or picked up

adjective

1. Emotionally stirred (as with gratitude)
2. Slightly unbalanced mentally

verb

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

   "loved to touch the soft silk"

2. To put hands upon in any way or degree

   "don't touch anything before the police come"

3. To take into the hands or mouth

   "never touches alcohol"

4. To strike or push lightly especially with the hand or foot or an implement
5. To cause to be briefly in contact or conjunction with something

   "touched her spurs to the horse"

6. To deal with become involved with

   "a sticky situation and I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole"

7. To rival in quality or value

   "nothing can touch that cloth for durability"

8. To be tangent to
9. To speak or tell of especially in passing

   "barely touched the incident in the speech"

10. To relate to concern
11. To have an influence on affect
12. To move to sympathetic feeling
13. To hurt the feelings of wound
14. To leave a mark or impression on

    "few reagents will touch gold"

15. To harm slightly by or as if by contact taint, blemish

    "fruit touched by frost"

16. To give a delicate tint, line, or expression to

    "a smile touched her lips"

17. To get a hit off or score a run against

    "touched him for three runs"

18. To draw or delineate with light strokes
19. To induce to give or lend

    "touched him for ten dollars"

20. To lay hands upon (one afflicted with scrofula) with intent to heal
21. To play on (a stringed instrument)
22. To perform (a melody) by playing or singing
23. To feel something with a body part (such as the hand or foot)
24. To lay hand or finger on a person to cure disease (such as scrofula)
25. To be in contact
26. To come close verge

    "your actions touch on treason"

27. To treat a topic in a brief or casual manner
28. To make a brief or incidental stop on shore during a trip by water

    "touched at several ports"

29. To have a bearing relate

noun

1. The bottom of something considered as its support foundation

   "the base of the mountain"

2. That part of a bodily organ by which it is attached to another more central structure of the organism

   "the base of the thumb"

3. A main ingredient

   "paint having a latex base"

4. A supporting or carrying ingredient (as of a medicine)
5. A first or bottom layer of something on which other elements are added

   "Overnight, Utah's famous snow has freshly blanketed both runs, adding to a solid base of three feet …"

6. The fundamental part of something groundwork, basis

   "the book's theoretical base"

7. Something (as a group of people) that reliably provides support (such as for a business or political candidate)
8. The economic factors on which all legal, social, and political relations are formed
9. The starting point or line for an action or undertaking

   "plans to make this city his base of operation"

10. A baseline in surveying
11. Root

    ""Leave" is the base of the verb "left.""

12. Any one of the four stations at the corners of a baseball or softball infield

    "allowing the batter to reach base"

13. The starting place or goal
14. A point to be considered

    "His opening remarks touched every base."

15. Any of various typically water-soluble and bitter tasting compounds that in solution have a pH greater than 7, are capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt, turn litmus blue, and are molecules or ions able to take up a proton from an acid or able to give up an unshared pair of electrons to an acid

    "Baking soda is a common household base."

16. Any of the five purine or pyrimidine bases of DNA and RNA that include cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine, and uracil
17. A price level at which a security see security previously declining in price resists further decline
18. The lower part of a heraldic field see field
19. The part of a transformational grammar that consists of rules and a lexicon and generates the deep structures of a language
20. An electrode that modulates the current flowing through a bipolar junction transistor according to the voltage applied to the electrode

    "This gate, which is called a grid in a tube and a base in a transistor, enables a small "controlling" voltage to turn on and off a much larger voltage between the cathode and the anode."

21. the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation
22. that part of a bodily organ by which it is attached to another more central structure of the organism
23. the lower part of a wall, pier, or column considered as a separate architectural feature

verb

1. To reach the ground land
2. To place (the ball in rugby) by hand on the ground on or over an opponent's goal line in scoring a try or behind one's own goal line as a defensive measure

idiomatic phrase

1. To participate in normal activities in the real world especially as opposed to online experiences and interactions

   "To be told to touch grass is intended as an insult for people who spend too much time online, disconnected from the reality outside their pixelated screens."

verb

1. To provoke or initiate with sudden intensity

   "the verdict touched off local riots"

2. To cause to explode by or as if by touching with fire
3. To describe or characterize with precision

verb

1. To improve or perfect by small additional strokes or alterations fix the minor and usually visible defects or damages of
2. To stimulate by or as if by a flick of a whip