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Idiom

lose touch

Meaning

To lose contact (with).

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“We lost touch after we moved to different cities.”

“Although we were best friends in college, we slowly lost touch as our careers took us in different directions.”

“Despite their promise to remain close, the passage of time and the distance between them caused them to lose touch entirely.”

Examples

simple

“We lost touch after we moved to different cities.”

contextual

“Although we were best friends in college, we slowly lost touch as our careers took us in different directions.”

complex

“Despite their promise to remain close, the passage of time and the distance between them caused them to lose touch entirely.”

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