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UK
/kˈɪs/
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[ US /ˈkɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈkɪs/ ]
VERB
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touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
The newly married couple kissed
She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room -
touch lightly or gently
the blossoms were kissed by the soft rain
NOUN
- a cookie made of egg whites and sugar
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a light glancing touch
there was a brief kiss of their hands in passing - the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
- any of several bite-sized candies
How To Use kiss In A Sentence
- When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The lady was kissing a little lap dog.
- I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. Mae West
- The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
- I turned to air kiss Mr. Bailey and instead found myself falling as if in slow motion into the throne r oom where the Queen was holding court. A Royal Engagement
- She planted little kisses across its forehead and it gurgled.
- Timothy was agonising over her, when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him.
- As my mom drove me home, after an embarrassing shower of kisses at the bus station, she chattered on and on about how boring her life was without me.
- In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure .
- She returned his kiss with passion.