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Answer for the clue "Bit of excitement ", 6 letters:
tingle

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a tingling sensation (= a feeling that your skin is stinging slightly ) ▪ She felt a tingling sensation, like a mild electric shock. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN fear ▪ I jerked back, tingling with fear , feeling ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tingle \Tin"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tingled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tingling .] [Freq. of ting. Cf. Tinkle .] To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound. At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. --1 Sam. iii. ...

Usage examples of tingle.

He urged her back against the closed door and kissed her neck, the bristle from his shaven jaw abrading her and making her skin tingle.

Dasslerond yelled at him, and she seemed even more fierce than usual, for her golden hair was all aflutter from the tingling of his electrical burst.

Danae fell back, her whole body tingling with the afterclap of that scream.

An unpleasant tingling sensation that had nothing to do with the burning of his cheeks engulfed Alec briefly as he hurried downstairs.

This time the glowing drops vanished as they touched Alec, leaving a faint tingling sensation in their wake.

A yellow-and-green bungee cord was wrapped tightly around his ankles, which explained the weird tingling he was starting to become aware of in his feet.

The thought that she still had the cablegram filled her with a tingling thrill.

Thankfully, she caught herself, tingling with embarrassment and feeling as if the dweeb had overstepped her bounds.

Or how her body tingled with electrifying awareness because of the man seated at her side?

As Patrick got the hang of the eraser and bore down with it, the tingling became a deep and monstrous itch.

There was a self-fermented alcoholic tingle as well, and beneath that a mellowing, relaxing, euphoric haze.

Xiao Fei had returned to his shoulders, pressing and kneading the muscles there until his skin tingled with awareness.

And some of them hurried off to the house of the Freer and took refuge with him amongst his holy things from all the unhallowed shapes that there were in their streets and all the magic that tingled and loomed in the air.

The full moon was close to rising, and the force of it had my whole body tingling.

Tired women wended their way home replete with milk poured from honeypots, still tingling from the voluptuous dry slither of snakes and remembering the powerful surge of snake muscle, the kiss of a forked tongue, earth broken open to receive the seed, a crown of vine leaves, the eternal female cycle of birth and death.