titillate
verb (used with object)
to excite or arouse agreeably, often in a sexually suggestive way.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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With those words he finally settled the question that had titillated the television world for years: Who would succeed Walter Cronkite, the best-known and most respected broadcast journalist of his era?
From Time Magazine Archive
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