tingled

Verb

tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
   • My hands were tingling from the cold.
   1. (intransitive) To feel an ASMR response.
      • I tingled
2. (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
   • Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.
   1. (transitive) To cause to feel an ASMR response.
      • tingle someone
3. (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.
   • Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
4. (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
   • Jackson, the butler, older of course, and altered he can see at a glance, opens the door almost before his hand is off the bell he has only gently tingled.1874, Charles C. Duek, The abbey chimes, page 76

   Synonyms:

   tinkle

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