Thrill
[θrɪl]
Definition
(noun.) something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation; 'the thrills of space travel'.
(verb.) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; 'he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine'.
(verb.) cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input; 'The men were thrilled by a loud whistle blow'.
Edited by Lancelot--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A warbling; a trill.
(v. t.) A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
(v. t.) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
(v. t.) 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. t.) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
(v. i.) To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.
(v. i.) 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; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.
Checker: Sumner
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Penetrate, pierce, move, touch, affect, strike.
v. n. Penetrate, pierce.
Editor: Maureen
Definition
v.t. to pierce: to affect strongly.—v.i. to pierce as something sharp: to cause a tingling shivering feeling to run through the body: to feel a sharp shivering sensation.—n. a thrilling sensation.—adjs. Thrill′ant (Spens.) thrilling piercing; Thrill′ing causing to thrill.—adv. Thrill′ingly in a thrilling manner: with thrilling sensations.—n. Thrill′ingness.
Edited by Ian
Examples
- To walk involves a displacement and reaction of the resisting earth, whose thrill is felt wherever there is matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Does not its gush of song thrill your heart? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You don't want to BE an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, to get a mental thrill out of them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His quiver is not seen; if his arrows penetrate, their wound is like a thrill of new life. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I touch Miss Shepherd's glove, and feel a thrill go up the right arm of my jacket, and come out at my hair. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A heavy thrill ran down her nerves, heavy, almost pleasure, almost pain. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A strange thrill struck him when she did so, and visibly passed over his frame; he laid the knife down softly, as he sat staring at her. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Sound waves striking the delicate ear-drum could send thrills through the heavier bones inside the ear. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The scene thrills one like military music! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Not this, but the subtle thrills of extreme sensation in reduction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Malvoisin, said the Knight, I thank thee--thou hast touched the string at which my heart most readily thrills! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Besides, I wished to touch no deep-thrilling chord--to open no fresh well of emotion in his heart: my sole present aim was to cheer him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He described the experience in the following words:-- A thrilling, extending from the chest to the extremities, was almost immediately p roduced. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She told no one, but concocted a 'thrilling tale', and boldly carried it herself to Mr. Dashwood, editor of the Weekly Volcano. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- That music stirs my soul; it wakens all my life; it makes my heart beat--not with its temperate daily pulse, but with a new, thrilling vigour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It seemed as if an electric stream went through Dorothea, thrilling her from despair into expectation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Graham _was_ handsome; he had fine eyes and a thrilling glance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Here the fragment stopped, because Shirley's song, erewhile somewhat full and thrilling, had become delicately faint. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The heart was thrilled, the mind astonished, by the power of the preacher: neither were softened. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When she sang, every note thrilled in his dull soul, and tingled through his huge frame. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Little did my poor aunt imagine what a gush of devout thankfulness thrilled through me as she approached the close of her melancholy story. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As he came into the circle of dim light which enables me to see him more clearly I was thrilled with horror at his appearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He saw a slave before him in that simple yielding faithful creature, and his soul within him thrilled secretly somehow at the knowledge of his power. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It thrilled him with a great dread of discovery; but the man went on. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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