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/tˈɪŋgəlɪŋ/ /tˈɪŋglɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Tingle v. i. (past & past part. tingled; pres. part. tingling)

To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound. "At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle."

To feel a sharp, thrilling pain. "The pale boy senator yet tingling stands."

To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation. "They suck pollution through their tingling vein."

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Etymology of 'Tingling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tingling" Quotes from Famous Books

... he lay there, apparently still senseless, Chris was grappling with the seemingly hopeless problem. So, even when he felt the tingling coldness of a spray of water on his cheeks, not one line of his face moved, nor did the tiniest ...

— Raiders Invisible • Desmond Winter Hall

... be early accustomed to take cold baths, and then run about naked in a room under the impulse given by the tingling glow of reaction. If a play is made of the bath the habit will be formed for life, and in this way, one of the mother's chief struggles, to make the children clean themselves, will be abolished. It is natural for a child to get dirty, and therefore it should be made as habitual ...

— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... lids fell to her cheeks in self-defense. Not for worlds would she have had him guess the swift message ready to leap out toward him. He seemed to be drawing her soul to his unconsciously. Tingling in every nerve, athrob with an emotion new and inexplicable, she drew a long slow breath and turned her head away. A hot shame ran like quicksilver through her veins. She whipped herself with her own scorn. ...

— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine

... of my senses," Smoke diagnosed. "I sense something, from without, that is tingling me with ice; it is a chill of ...

— Smoke Bellew • Jack London

... felt as though he had accidentally touched a full-charged battery. He waited until the numb, tingling sensation had left him before ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

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