Thrill

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause to feel a sudden intense sensation; excite greatly.
  • v. To give great pleasure to; delight. See Synonyms at enrapture.
  • v. To cause to quiver, tremble, or vibrate.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel a sudden quiver of excitement or emotion.
  • verb-intransitive. To quiver, tremble, or vibrate.
  • n. A quivering or trembling caused by sudden excitement or emotion.
  • n. A source or cause of excitement or emotion.
  • n. Pathology A slight palpable vibration that often accompanies certain cardiac and circulatory abnormalities.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
  • v. To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
  • v. To pierce.
  • n. a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion
  • n. a cause of sudden excitement; a kick
  • n. a slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A warbling; a trill.
  • n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
  • v. To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
  • v. Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.
  • v. To hurl; to throw; to cast.
  • verb-intransitive. To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
  • n. A drill. See 3d drill, 1.
  • n. A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bore; pierce; perforate; drill: thirl. Compare thirl, 1.
  • To penetrate or permeate with a sudden wave of feeling, as of pleasure, pity, remorse, etc.; affect or fill with a tingling emotion or sensation. Compare thirl, 2.
  • To hurl.
  • To penetrate or permeate; pass, run, or stir with sudden permeating inflow; move quiveringly or so as to cause a sort of shivering sensation.
  • To be agitated or moved by or as by the permeating inflow of some subtle feeling or influence; quiver; shiver.
  • To quiver or move with a tremulous movement; vibrate; throb, as a voice.
  • n. A hole; specifically, a breathing-hole: a nostril. Compare nostril (nose-thrill).
  • n. A subtle permeating influx of emotion or sensation; a feeling that permeates the whole system with subtle, irresistible force: as, a thrill of horror.
  • n. In medicine, a peculiar tremor felt, in certain conditions of the respiratory or circulatory organs, upon applying the hand to the body; fremitus.
  • n. A throb; a beat or pulsation.
  • n. A tale or book the hearing or perusal of which sends a thrill or sensation of pleasure, pity, or excitement through one; a sensational story.
  • To warble; trill.
  • n. A warbling; a trill.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
  • v. feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
  • n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
  • v. cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
  • v. tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
  • v. fill with sublime emotion
  • n. the swift release of a store of affective force
  • Verb Form
    thrilled    thrilling    thrills   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    excitement    excitation    shake up    stir    shake    excite    stimulate    fearfulness    fright    fear   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    drill   
    Form
    thrilly    cheap thrill   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    warbling    trill    pierce    penetrate    hurl    throw    cast    sensation    shock    flush   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastille    Belleville    Bill    Brazil    Brill    Gil    Gill    Hill    Jill    Lil   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sensation    excite    shock    excitement    wonderful    surge    pang    shiver    throb    charm