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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

... limousine swallowed him; a door slammed, and the car moved away. But Nance, utterly forgetful of her recent discomfort, still stood in the door of the drug store, tingling with excitement as she watched a little red light until it lost itself in the other moving lights on the ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

... as a leaf caught up in a whirlwind—swept suddenly into the hot vehemence of a man's desire while she was yet unstrung and quivering from the emotional strain of the Swan-Maiden's dance, every nerve of her quickened to a tingling sentience by the underlying passion ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... he would fall, down, spiraling, weightless, off the cliff as in a dream, off the ladder, the tree, he was a child and his toes were tingling as he stood too near the edge of the cliff, ...

— Sound of Terror • Don Berry

... beyond her years, she was still fond of out-door sports and merry times. Sliding on the ice was her especial delight. One day, after a full hour's fun in the bracing air, she rushed into the house, the blood tingling in every vein, exclaiming, "It's splendid sliding!" "Yes," replied the father, "it's good ...

— Lives of Girls Who Became Famous • Sarah Knowles Bolton

... the sensory mechanism cause numbness and tingling (paraesthesia); more extensive paralytic lesions produce anaesthesia, astereognosis, loss of muscle sense, loss of pain, or inability to distinguish temperature, according to the tracts that ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

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