as in to pat
to touch or handle in a tender or loving manner
gently caressed her hair
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The designer had uploaded a video to Instagram stories, caressing the sides of a £1,390 cami from her spring/summer 2025 collection, while packing for the holidays.
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Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2025
Dan Sheldon Golf: A hole-in-one There’s no greater satisfaction in sport than carefully caressing a little white ball into a slightly larger hole in the ground with a metal stick.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
The soil caressed my bare feet, and the dust was always boiling up from the dirt road that passed 50 feet from our front door.
—Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Its heat caresses a skewer of marshmallow-tender veal sweetbreads shining beneath a lip-sticky demi-glace.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2025
Dan Sheldon Golf: A hole-in-one There’s no greater satisfaction in sport than carefully caressing a little white ball into a slightly larger hole in the ground with a metal stick.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
The soil caressed my bare feet, and the dust was always boiling up from the dirt road that passed 50 feet from our front door.
—Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Its heat caresses a skewer of marshmallow-tender veal sweetbreads shining beneath a lip-sticky demi-glace.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Caress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caress. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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