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单词 to lose touch
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to lose touch
f. to lose touch.
(a) To cease to be in communication; to lose contact with a person, etc. Formerly also with †of.
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1884 Christian World 15 May 369/2 He had never lost touch with his brethren.
1917 Boys' Life Mar. 15/3 I don't feel that I have lost touch of my former acquaintances over there.
1943 ‘C. Dickson’ She died Lady i. 5 When bad weather put an end to my visits to the Wainrights', I lost touch with them.
1975 J. Bishop Trip back Down i. 26 Look Bobby, when you two busted up..well..we just naturally lost touch.
2009 V. Delany Valley of Lost xxi. 189 Things got busy. And we lost touch.
(b) With with (also occasionally of). To become disconnected or disengaged from; to lose understanding or awareness of.
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1900 Internat. Good Templar (Milwaukee) Apr. 121/2 The church has..lost touch with the great masses of humanity, and the masses have lost touch with the church.
1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic i. 34 The public with which the intelligentsia has so unhappily lost touch is itself composed of intelligent humanists.
1978 Billboard 4 Mar. 48/1 To insure that they never lose touch of changes within the club and within the industry as a whole, [etc.].
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 70 I promised not to lose touch with reality.
2010 Church Times 1 Jan. 29/1 A hand-wringing report to the General Synod about how the Church was losing touch with young people.
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