Decrepit vs Vellicate - What's the difference?
decrepit | vellicate |
To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
* Roald Dahl, The Way Up to Heaven
to irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.
To pinch.
To cause to twitch.
* Arbuthnot
As verbs the difference between decrepit and vellicate
is that decrepit is while vellicate is to touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.decrepit
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Alternative forms
* decrepid (obsolete)Derived terms
* decrepitly * decrepitudeExternal links
*Anagrams
*vellicate
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Verb
(vellicat)- It was nothing much - just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye
- Smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth.
- Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous.