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titillatetit‧il‧late /ˈtɪtəleɪt/ verb [transitive] titillateOrigin: 1600-1700 Latin past participle of titillare ‘to tickle’ VERB TABLEtitillate |
Present | I, you, we, they | titillate | | he, she, it | titillates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | titillated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have titillated | | he, she, it | has titillated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had titillated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will titillate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have titillated |
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Present | I | am titillating | | he, she, it | is titillating | | you, we, they | are titillating | Past | I, he, she, it | was titillating | | you, we, they | were titillating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been titillating | | he, she, it | has been titillating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been titillating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be titillating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been titillating |
- Details of the sex scandal are being revealed just to titillate the public, not inform them.
- The sex scandal is titillating the American public.
- Even when the lubricious Cardinal is titillated by his chair-straddling mistress, it is in the shadow of an overhanging jewelled crucifix.
- He titillated himself with thoughts of her applying that cruelty to him.
- It was rubbing up and down as if he were titillating an unseen erogenous zone.
to make someone feel sexually excited► excite · She excites me in a way that no other woman can.get somebody excited (=make them excited) · Some of those Internet chat rooms can get you pretty excited. ► turn somebody on informal to make someone feel sexually excited: · It's difficult telling your partner what actually turns you on.· Men with long hair really turn me on. ► titillate if pictures, stories etc in newspapers and books titillate people, they are deliberately intended to make people feel slightly sexually excited: · Details of the sex scandal are being revealed just to titillate the public, not inform them. if a picture or a story titillates someone, it makes them feel sexually interested—titillating adjective—titillation /ˌtɪtəˈleɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] |