touch on

English

Alternative forms

• touch upon

Pronunciation

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Verb

touch on (third-person singular simple present touches on, present participle touching on, simple past and past participle touched on)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To mention briefly; to cursorily discuss.

   We touched on the subject of wages, but we didn't reach a conclusion.

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To come or go to for a short time.
   • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts.

Translations

mention briefly

• Armenian: անդրադառնալ (hy) (andradaṙnal), շոշափել (hy) (šošapʻel)
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• Finnish: sivuta (fi)
• French: effleurer (fr), évoquer (fr)
• German: anreißen (de)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: tocar (es)
• Turkish: değinmek (tr), söz etmek (tr), yer vermek (tr)

come or go for a short time

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• Finnish: pistäytyä (fi)
• French: passer (fr)
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