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Adjective prickling has 1 sense
- prickling, stinging, tingling - causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks; "a prickling blush of embarrassment"; "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep"; "a stinging nettle"; "the stinging windblown sleet"
Antonym: painless (indirect, via painful)
Noun prickling has 1 sense
- prickling, tingle, tingling - a prickling somatic sensation as from many tiny pricks
--1 is a kind of somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
--1 has particulars: pins and needles
Verb prickle has 3 senses
- prickle, prick - cause a prickling sensation
--1 is one way to prick, sting, twinge
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody's (body part) ----s
- tingle, prickle - cause a stinging or tingling sensation
--2 is one way to itch
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody's (body part) ----s
- prickle, prick - make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample"
--3 is one way to pierce
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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