tickle
verb (used with object)
to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
are tickling
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present progressiveof tickle.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Right now, in a high-security research lab at Northwestern University’s Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, scientists are tickling rats.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2014
As rap music goes mainstream and movies by black directors like Spike Lee and John Singleton become mass-audience hits, African-American cartoonists are tickling the public fancy in newspapers across the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Minister awoke with a start and exclaimed: "Leave off, Sophie, you are tickling me!"
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
"Oh," she exclaimed with a laugh, "it's your rabbits that are tickling me."
From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
