Thrill

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  • intransitive verb. To cause to feel a sudden sensation of pleasure or delight; excite greatly.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to quiver, tremble, or vibrate.
  • intransitive verb. To feel a sudden sensation of pleasure or delight.
  • intransitive verb. To quiver, tremble, or vibrate.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A sudden feeling of pleasure or excitement.
  • noun. A source or cause of pleasure or excitement.
  • noun. A quivering or trembling caused by sudden excitement or emotion.
  • noun. A slight palpable vibration associated with a cardiac murmur and certain other cardiac or respiratory conditions.
  • 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.
  • noun. A warbling; a trill.
  • noun. A hole; specifically, a breathing-hole: a nostril. Compare nostril (nose-thrill).
  • noun. A subtle permeating influx of emotion or sensation; a feeling that permeates the whole system with subtle, irresistible force: as, a thrill of horror.
  • noun. In medicine, a peculiar tremor felt, in certain conditions of the respiratory or circulatory organs, upon applying the hand to the body; fremitus.
  • noun. A throb; a beat or pulsation.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A warbling; a trill.
  • noun. A drill. See 3d drill, 1.
  • noun. A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement.
  • intransitive verb. To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering.
  • intransitive verb. To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
  • noun. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
  • transitive verb. To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To hurl; to throw; to cast.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
  • verb. To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
  • verb. To pierce.
  • noun. a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion
  • noun. a cause of sudden excitement; a kick
  • noun. a slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
  • verb. feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
  • noun. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
  • verb. cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
  • verb. tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
  • verb. fill with sublime emotion
  • noun. the swift release of a store of affective force
  • Word Usage
    "Professor Shairp defined the soul of poetry when he wrote: "Whenever the soul comes vividly in contact with any fact, truth, or existence, which it realizes and takes home to itself with more than common intensity, out of that meeting of the soul and its object there arises a thrill of joy, a glow of emotion; and the expression of that _glow_, that _thrill_, is poetry.""
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    Bastille  Belleville  Bill  Brazil  Brill  
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    charm  excite  excitement  full  pang  
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    ache  acute pain  affect  agonize  ail  
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