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Vellicate

verb
(past & past part. vellicated; pres. part. vellicating)
1.
Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.  Synonyms: tickle, titillate.
2.
Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.  Synonym: pinch.  "The pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"






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"Vellicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... to post, keep between hawk and buzzard. agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate[obs3]. Adj. shaking &c. v.; agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory|; saltatoric[obs3]; quasative[obs3]; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory[obs3], convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter. Adv. by fits and starts; subsultorily| &c. adj[obs3].; per saltum[Lat]; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Vellicate" :   itch, tickle, irritate, titillate, vellication, pinch



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