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Past tense of tingle

regular verb

The past tense of tingle is tingled. The past participle is also tingled.

Forms of tingle

Base form (V1)tingle /ˈtɪŋɡəl/
Past tense (V2)tingled
Past participle (V3)tingled
Present participletingling
Third person singulartingles

Tingled in a sentence

  • At that precise moment, after a week of silence, the solar chime forcefully tingled, loudly and clearly, again and again.2021, Benita Glickman, Then and Now: Snapshots of My Life
  • A matted beard tingled from his shin and grapevined all over the exposed parts of his body.2017, Aben Kandel, City for Conquest. From the entry grapevine
  • A sense of foreboding, almost like a Spidey-sense, tingled at the back of my neck.2010, Tate Hallaway [pseudonym; Lyda Morehouse], Honeymoon of the Dead, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN. From the entry spidey-sense
  • Stimulating forces tingled more intensely from the lower underpull of gravity.2009, Robert Klardon, Gravityball, page 149. From the entry underpull
  • If she was slightly more attractive, I believe that the peach fuzz on the bottom of my nut sack would have tingled just slightly then, watching her cry like that.2006, Keith Malinsky, Burying Ronald: A Confession by Mortimer J. Pentowski, page 37. From the entry peach fuzz

Meaning of tingle

  1. verb To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
  2. verb To feel an ASMR response.
  3. verb To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

Full definition of tingle

Questions about the past tense of tingle

What is the past tense of tingle?
The past tense of tingle is tingled.
What is the past participle of tingle?
The past participle of tingle is tingled.
Is tingle a regular or irregular verb?
Tingle is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tingle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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