Meaning

1 senses

  1. To stimulate or excite sensually.

    The dancer titillated her audience with gyrations and suggestive movements.

    anregen, erregen

    возбуждатьvozbuždatʹ

    excite pleasurably or erotically

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The teasers are designed to titillate viewers.

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  2. Day after day the tabloids titillated the public with lurid details about the president's marital infidelity.

    ruДень за днем таблоиды будоражили публику сенсационными подробностями о супружеской неверности президента. — olyalya

    deTag für Tag heizten die Boulevardblätter die Öffentlichkeit an mit erschreckenden Details über die Untreue des Präsidenten in seiner Ehe. — Dokuyaku

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to excite pleasantly:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to excite pleasantly:

Origin

From Latin tītillātus, from tītillāre (“to tickle”).

From Latin tītillātus, from tītillāre (“to tickle”).

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Forms

titillates, titillating, titillated, titillated
Base formtitillate · to titillate
3rd person singulartitillates
Present participletitillating
Past simpletitillated
Past participletitillated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytitillate
he, she, ittitillates

Past simpleLesson

all personstitillated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave titillated
he, she, ithas titillated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill titillate

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements:ticklevellicate

Word family

4 related words
Relatedtitillation
Derivedtitillatingtitillativetitillator

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
titaniumtithetitleA2tits
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