Meaning

(intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
2. (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
3. (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.
4. (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
5. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
6. A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
7. A nail of the very smallest size; a tack.
8. A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.

Example Sentences

My hands were tingling from the cold.

I got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles.

For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.

Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.

Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.

The wind-chime tingling of halyards slapping against masts, the constant creaking of wooden boats, the gurgling of water passing under the hull.

They delightfully ring to greet the rising sun and still tingle during the darkest night.

At that precise moment, after a week of silence, the solar chime forcefully tingled, loudly and clearly, again and again.

Word Forms

• tingles
• tingling
• tingled

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