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Touching vs Grabbing - What's the difference?

touching | grabbing |

As verbs the difference between touching and grabbing

is that touching is present participle of lang=en while grabbing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between touching and grabbing

is that touching is the act by which something is touched while grabbing is the act of one who grabs.

As an adjective touching

is provoking sadness and pity.

touching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Provoking sadness and pity.
    • a touching story

    Synonyms

    * emotional, moving, sad

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is touched.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
    • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings , and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

    Anagrams

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    grabbing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * attention-grabbing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who grabs.
  • * 2005 , Jeff Metzger, Cubicle Cowboy (page 168)
    • On the way out, all five of us were subjected to an absolute gauntlet of ass-grabbings and crotch-grabbings. I suspected most of the culprits to be transvestites.