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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

... hoarsely, her cheeks flaming, her ears tingling. "To whom are you apologising?" He looked at her perplexed. "Why have you not told Addie?" she forced herself ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... passages and class-rooms alike having the air of bleak austerity which seems inseparable from such buildings; but when nine o'clock struck, and the flood of young life went trooping up the stairways and flowed into the separate rooms, the sense of bareness was replaced by one of tingling vitality. ...

— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... hundred vibrating tongues and a hundred bellowing mouths, their one grand blended and harmonized uproar sets all my fibres tingling with a not ...

— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... away, To wipe her tingling eyes; And, as in twenty bits they lay, Her grandmamma she spies. "Heyday! and what's the matter now?" Cried ...

— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... Christophe in the name of the strong and the independent. But though they had withdrawn, one to the bows, the other to the stern, they were still traveling in the vessel which was carrying the army of the working-classes and the whole of society. Free and self-confident, Christophe watched with tingling interest the coalition of the proletarians: he needed every now and then to plunge into the vat of the people: it relaxed him: he always issued from it fresher and jollier. He kept up his relation with Coquard, and he went on taking his meals from ...

— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

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