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vellicate
verb
(vel-li-cate)
irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
Synonyms:
pinch
,
Examples:
Smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth.
vellicate
verb
(vel-li-cate)
touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
Synonyms:
tickle
,
titillate
,
Words Related to
vellicate
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nip
,
pinch
,
squeeze
,
tweet
,
twinge
,
twitch
,
vellication
,
cutaneous sensation
,
sensific
,
twitchingly
,
indigitation
,
agnail
,
tickle
,
touchily
,
tactile property
,
taste bud
,
somesthesia
,
move involuntarily
,
tingle
,
palatoglossal
,
horripilate
,
exulcerate
,
extumescence
,
blood blister
,
change shape
,
digitation
,
crispation
,
ramollescence
,
tetanomotor
,
obdormition
,
tetanize
,
tastebud
,
ocular muscle
,
demulce
,
somesthesis
,
frote
,
shrink back
,
vibratiuncle
,
glossal
,
pilomotor reflex
,
hard palate
,
goose skin
,
urticant
,
overaffect
,
involuntarily
,
external organ
,
palpate
,
rhinoscleroma
,
coenesthesis
,
sensifacient
,
nasute
,
rub
,
whittle down
,
palpebra
,
stomach
,
heartswelling
,
impassionable
,
illinition
,
nervimotion
,
abducens muscle
,
clench
,
subsultus
,
puzzle over
,
assuasive
,
tantalise
,
triture
,
glossohyal
,
trench mouth
,
trochlear nerve
,
prosphysis
,
begnaw
,
wiggle
,
finger
,
abirritate
,
innerve
,
parageusia
,
upper jaw
,
inirritable
,
patellar reflex
,
esodic
,
that much
,
quitch
,
antiorgastic
,
glossalgia
,
entoglossal
,
jactitation
,
bepinch
,
engouled
,
quassation
,
renerve
,
exulceration
,
forefeel
,
pick at
,
affriction
,
eat away
,
abirritant
,
degum
,
glossodynia
,
deuteropathy
,
jactation
,
vellicate
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