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caress

/kuh-res/US // kəˈrɛs //UK // (kəˈrɛs) //

抚摸,抚摩,抚慰,爱抚

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
    • : a light and gentle touch or stroke, or something that passes lightly over a person or thing: Let the gentle caresses of the music carry your worries away.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to touch, pat, or stroke gently to show affection.
    • : to touch or seem to touch lightly: The breeze caressed the trees.
    • : to treat with favor, kindness, etc.

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Examples

  • There is not a moment in the day that goes by when I don’t think about you or remember those caresses that are no longer mine.

  • While he does, my eyes caress the strange pop culture tapestry on display.

  • “His language in the hearing” to describe the choking “was that it was a ‘gentle caress,’” Sclove remembered.

  • Kopin said the interchange was nothing more than a “gentle caress.”

  • But they looked really into each other—they held hands and kissed, and I saw Chris caress her cheek.

  • Free traders get up and fetch the bottle of scotch so that they can at least caress the neck.

  • The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.

  • Each word was a caress, each syllable alive with interest, sympathy, excited anticipation.

  • He did not caress it; she once heard him sighing over it; and he never announced it in the newspapers.

  • He kissed her with a degree of passion which had not before entered into his caress, and strained her to him.

  • And yet he heard songs that sounded like a caress and his whole being was permeated by a sense of delicious freshness.