Synonym: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, trigger, trigger off, trip. Similar words: touch on, touch, touchy, touch at, touch up, touches, in touch, touched. Meaning: v. put in motion or move to act.
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1 The charges touched off a storm of protest.
2 The incident on the frontier touched off a major war.
3 His arrest touched off a riot.
4 Her comments touched off a wave of protests.
5 The blaze was touched off by lightning.
6 The dispute was touched off by the dismissal of a workman for insubordination.
7 The plans for a new airport have touched off a storm of protest.
8 He touched off the girl's profile with a few stokes.
9 It was these national rivalries that eventually touched off the First World War.
10 Is the massacre likely to touch off a new round of violence?
11 His father's death touched off a minor gang war.
12 The boy's death touched off race riots and divided the town.
13 When his hand touched the elevator signal it touched off the tiniest spark of static electricity.
14 This stark view of what really matters has touched off a spirited debate and will occupy us in Chapter 5.
15 The disaster in Rangoon had touched off an extensive reorganization of the bureaucracy dealing with North-South and international affairs.
16 Her allegations have touched off widespread criticism of Albert Hale in the Navajo Nation.
17 The change in instrumentation thus touched off an explosion of information.
18 A bit of a bombshell, Vi distracts Betty's hard-won suitor Hugh,[www.Sentencedict.com] touching off a set of sibling sparring.
19 The accident touched off a wave of rioting that spread throughout the occupied territories.
20 Some slight incident may touch off a major war.
21 A surprise disruption in oil supplies also could touch off a rally.
22 But contraception, induced abortion, sterilization technologies touch off a firestorm of debate about ethics.
23 Using electron switch touch off cross zero , thus deferent electron sine wave is intact.
24 The artist had only time to touch off the mountain as the train stopped for refreshments.
25 You may touch off a firestorm quite innocently, so be careful then.
26 It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War.
27 In the old days, soldiers used a flaming piece of wood to touch off the gun.
More similar words: touch on, touch, touchy, touch at, touch up, touches, in touch, touched, retouch, much of a, touching, touchdown, touch down, untouched, touchstone, touchable, soft touch, get in touch, out of touch, touch-and-go, touch base, touch upon, touch and go, not much of a, midas touch, touchingly, make much of, touchscreen, touchy-feely, touch screen.