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Felt

verb

1.

Mat together and make felt-like.

2.

Cover with felt.

3.

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like. Synonyms: felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up.

noun

1.

A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers.

Feel

verb

(past & past part. felt; pres. part. feeling)

1.

Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind. Synonym: experience. "He felt regret"

2.

Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds. Synonym: find. "I find him to be obnoxious" , "I found the movie rather entertaining"

3.

Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles. Synonym: sense. "She felt an object brushing her arm" , "He felt his flesh crawl" , "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"

4.

Be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state. "She felt tired after the long hike" , "She felt sad after her loss"

5.

Have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude. "You make me feel naked" , "I made the students feel different about themselves"

6.

Undergo passive experience of:. "Her fingers felt their way through the string quartet" , "She felt his contempt of her"

7.

Be felt or perceived in a certain way. "The sheets feel soft"

8.

Grope or feel in search of something.

9.

Examine by touch. Synonym: finger. "The customer fingered the sweater"

10.

Examine (a body part) by palpation. Synonym: palpate. "The runner felt her pulse"

11.

Find by testing or cautious exploration.

12.

Produce a certain impression.

13.

Pass one's hands over the sexual organs of.

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"Felt" Quotes from Famous Books

... rose an inch—then an inch more. Gripping the handle of my tomahawk, I prayed for guidance in my stroke, for the blade might go wild in the darkness. Upward crept the board, and suddenly it was gone from the floor. I swung a full circle—and to my horror I felt the axe plunging into soft flesh and crunching on a bone. I had missed the head! A yell shattered the night as the puncheon fell with a rattle on the boards, and my tomahawk was gone from my hand. Without, the fierce war-cry of the Shawanees ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... window-curtains, and leans out into the night. The crushed sweetness of the rain-beaten roses floats up to her in the wet darkness. Nothing to be seen but the vague tossing of the trees, nothing to be heard but the soughing of the wind, nothing to be felt but the fast and still ...

— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming

... fingers felt for the bolts with almost feverish anxiety. Dolores helped her and opened the window wide. A strain of distant clarions sounding a triumphant march came floating across the wet city. Dolores started, and her ...

— In The Palace Of The King - A Love Story Of Old Madrid • F. Marion Crawford

... conversation which doesn't concern it. For a long time we were singularly obtuse about this little point of etiquette in the country. The fact that all the bells on a line rang with every call was a constant temptation to sit in when we weren't wanted. We listened to other people's conversations when we felt like it. It amused us, and why shouldn't we? We rented our telephone and we had a right to pick it up and soak in everything ...

— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch

... said to herself—that she had any particular objection to marrying again. Thompson had been dead now for four years, and neither his friends, nor her friends, nor the world could say she was wrong on that score. And as to marrying a Frenchman, she could not say she felt within herself any absolute repugnance to doing that. Of her own country, speaking of England as such, she, in truth, knew but little—and perhaps cared less. She had gone to India almost as a child, ...

— The Chateau of Prince Polignac • Anthony Trollope

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