I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
finger
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She moved her fingers delicately as if caressing the wind.
hair
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He put out a hand and caressed her hair , her head, with tenderness and, she thought, curious detachment.
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She laughed at that, came closer, caressed his hair in a sloppy way as if scared of getting too mushy.
hand
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His lips were firm and damp enough, the hand that caressed her face dry and sinewy.
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He put out a hand and caressed her hair, her head, with tenderness and, she thought, curious detachment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Barbara held the tiny baby close and caressed his cheek.
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He began caressing her with a surprising gentleness.
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Stan lovingly caressed my cheek.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cameras caress them from every angle.
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Looming over the Everqueen it reached out to caress her cheek with its claw.
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She wanted so much to hold, touch, and caress her.
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She was caressing his face when the phone rang, making them both jump a little.
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The sunlight caressed the crimson and white chrysanthemums in the abandoned courtyard.
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Their hands - podgy, thin, freckled or pale - touched everything, prodding, caressing, tickling, squeezing.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He observed naughtily, subtly, wittily, passively, on occasion with a feline caress .
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Her body was a new one under his sensual caresses, reborn for this man who held her heart.
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Skye stood by the hotel bus, basking in the unfamiliar caress .
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So light a caress to do so much!
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Suddenly it was no longer enough to accept his caresses without responding.
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There was no inhuman obscene caress , no acid caking on her flesh.
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Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring.