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palpate
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Definition:to examine via touch
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He would sit at his desk and read his favorite book—Gray's Anatomy—and depending on what he was reading about he would use his fingers to palpate his carotid artery or his thumb to press down and follow the longest muscle in his body—the sartorius, [...].
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.224 (2002)
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His fingertips, working there in the hot darkness of the muff, wanted to know what the two lumps in the lining of the little impresario’s coat were. The fingertips got inside the lining. They palpated the lumps, the pea-shaped thing and the horseshoe-shaped thing.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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I had palpated the very flesh of fate— and its padded shoulder.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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suggestive of potent rectum and tumescent for palpation, which leave nothing to be desired save compactness.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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