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Titillate

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Itch 76% connected

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shake 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stir 76% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Titillation 74% connected

The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Titillation 74% connected

The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Entails 2

Delight 72% connected

A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records that the source verb entails the related action.

Please 72% connected

To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.

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Synonym 2

Tickle 92% connected

To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Vellicate 92% connected

To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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