tingleverb [ I ]
uk/ˈtɪŋ.ɡəl/us/ˈtɪŋ.ɡəl/to have a feeling as if a lot of sharp points are being put quickly and lightly into your body:
My fingers and toes are tingling with the cold.
There's a line in that poem that makes my spine tingle every time I read it.
When you tingle with an emotion, such as excitement or fear, you feel it very strongly:
She tingled with fear as she entered the dark alleyway.
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Pain & painful
- -racked
- achy
- agonizing
- cluster headache
- dodgy
- earache
- hell
- hurt
- masochism
- non-ulcer stomach pain
- painful
- painfully
- painless
- rack
- racking
- shooting pains
- suffering
- tender
- throb
- torment
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Strong feelings
tinglenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtɪŋ.ɡəl/us/ˈtɪŋ.ɡəl/a feeling as if a lot of sharp points are being put quickly and lightly into your body:
There's a slight tingle in my wrists.
She stroked his head, sending tingles down his spine.
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Feelings - general words
- aura
- charged
- emotional
- emotionalism
- feeling
- free-floating
- himself
- in your heart of hearts idiom
- infect
- myself
- ripple
- sentient
- sentiment
- sentimental
- sentimentalism
- soul
- stab
- tinge
- trip
- twinge
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tingly
adjective uk/ˈtɪŋ.ɡəl.i/us/ˈtɪŋ.ɡəl.i/
causing a tingle:
The massage had left me with a pleasant tingly sensation.