Adjective prickling has 1 sense
  1. prickling, stinging, tingling - causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks; "a prickling blush of embarrassment"; "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep"; "a stinging nettle"; "the stinging windblown sleet"
    Antonym: painless (indirect, via painful)
,Noun prickling has 1 sense
  1. prickling, tingle, tingling - a prickling somatic sensation as from many tiny pricks
    --1 is a kind of somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
    --1 has particulars: pins and needles
    Derived forms: verb prickle2, verb prickle1
,Verb prickle has 3 senses
  1. prickle, prick - cause a prickling sensation
    --1 is one way to prick, sting, twinge
    Derived form: noun prickling1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody's (body part) ----s
  2. tingle, prickle - cause a stinging or tingling sensation
    --2 is one way to itch
    Derived form: noun prickling1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody's (body part) ----s
  3. prickle, prick - make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample"
    --3 is one way to pierce
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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