tingle

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  1. intransitive verb To have a prickling, stinging sensation, as from cold, a sharp slap, or excitement: tingled all over with joy.
  2. intransitive verb To cause a prickling, stinging sensation or feeling: The straw tingled.
  3. transitive verb To cause to tingle.
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  • I concentrated and felt a faint tingle, a distant echo of the disorientation that preceded a vision, but it wasn't enough. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • Just thinking about that solid chest made her fingers tingle, aching to touch him again. —  O'Clare, Lorie - Sex Slaves Trilogy (v1.0)
  • Her right hand began to tingle, a tiny feeling, like the distant memory of a touch. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
  • He squinted down the length of the blade at the sink, feeling the power within the sword tingle against his palm. —  Searching
  • There was a slight tingle, and that was all; the land beyond was much the same as regular Xanth. —  Roc and a Hard Place
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  1. Middle English tinglen, alteration of tinklen; see tinkle.

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  1. Early modern English also tingil; from Middle English tinglen; variant of tinkle, or freq. of ting: see tinkle.
  2. from tingle, v.
 

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