Caress meaning

Verb: caress

Pronunciation:

Caress meaning:

• To touch someone or something in a gentle way.

• To treat with tokens of fondness, affection or kindness.

• To touch lightly in a loving or endearing manner.

Synonyms: fondle, gentle, love, pat, pet, stroke

Quotations:Jean-Paul Sartre – Anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough

Leonard Cohen – In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

William Carlos Williams – You slapped my face, Oh but so gently I smiled At the caress.

Sample sentences:

• He caressed the baby’s cheek.
• Her face was caressed by the warm breeze.
• Light music is a fond caress.
• Mother showered her with caresses.