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Thrill
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- 1 A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.
"She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill."
- 2 something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation wordnet
- 3 A cause of sudden excitement; a kick. figuratively
"The thrill is gone / Gone, gone for me / I still live on, lonely though I'll be"
- 4 an almost pleasurable sensation of fright wordnet
- 5 A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
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- 6 the swift release of a store of affective force wordnet
- 7 A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
- 1 To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation. ergative
"The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, / That sudden cold did run through every vein."
- 2 To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.
- 3 feel sudden intense sensation or emotion wordnet
- 4 To (cause something to) tremble or quiver. ergative
- 5 fill with sublime emotion wordnet
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- 6 To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. obsolete
"he perced through his chaufed chest / With thrilling point of deadly yron brand"
- 7 tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement wordnet
- 8 To hurl; to throw; to cast. obsolete
"I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture"
- 9 cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input wordnet
Etymology
From Old English þȳrlian (“to pierce”), derived from þȳrel (“hole”) (archaic English thirl). Doublet of thirl (verb).
From Old English þȳrlian (“to pierce”), derived from þȳrel (“hole”) (archaic English thirl). Doublet of thirl (verb).
Blend of thread (verb) + drill (verb).
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