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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
titillate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Details of the sex scandal are being revealed just to titillate the public, not inform them.
▪ The sex scandal is titillating the American public.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Titillate

Titillate \Tit"il*late\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Titillated; p. pr. & vb. n. Titillating.] [L. titillatus, p. p. of titillare.] To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.

The pungent grains of titillating dust.
--Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
titillate

1610s, back-formation from titillation. Related: Titillated; titillating.

Wiktionary
titillate

vb. To stimulate or excite pleasantly

WordNet
titillate
  1. v. touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements [syn: tickle, vellicate]

  2. excite pleasurably or erotically; "A titillating story appeared in the usually conservative magazine"

Usage examples of "titillate".

As difficult as it proved to be, she sought to lend her attention to what she was actually seeing rather than the warmly titillating ambience through which she had just drifted.

And titillating the public now could help sales of Peptide 7 later on.

We were tired, but through words and glances we prolonged a titillating sexual afterglow that lasted several more minutes.

Attempts by listeners to find this titillating volume resulted in frustration and angrily unkind implications that Shepherd and the truth were not on the best of terms.

Her own tongue fluttered, then tentatively toyed with his in a titillating game that taught her the beginning of boldness.

She grew too conscious of the chest pressing her shoulder, and of the breath titillating her cheek, and of the fingers firmly resting on her waist, steadying her so she did not fall from her perch.

His gaze followed the moving edge as if he felt its titillating path as much as she did.

His tongue swirled on her nipple and her body stretched toward the titillating thrill.

With titillating touches he provoked an insistent, anxious arousal in her body.

He trailed the tip of his tongue up her shins, tantalizing her with the titillating strokes until she felt sure she would go mad.

One wet morning, when the weather was that in which the snails make their tracks, a melancholy time, and suitable to reverie, Blanche was in the house sitting in her chair in deep thought, because nothing produces more lively concoctions of the substantive essences, and no receipt, specific or philter is more penetrating, transpiercing or doubly transpiercing and titillating than the subtle warmth which simmers between the nap of the chair and a maiden sitting during certain weather.

He rubbed the length of it back and forth, teasing her opening Pushing her against the tile wall, Evan grabbed hold of her buttocks, lifting her onto him until his cock took a slow, titillating glide into her.

When her contractions ceased, he gently flipped Carla over on her back, and worked his magic another time while plundering her body with tender determination, titillating her clit with a fingertip, bringing her to a second and third climax.

Her heart pounded with anticipation, expecting him at any moment to whip out the titillating item and dangle it before her.

Using her body in a provocative, erotic game to bring them both a titillating climax.