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Thrill   /θrɪl/   Listen
Thrill

noun
1.
The swift release of a store of affective force.  Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, rush.  "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"
2.
An almost pleasurable sensation of fright.  Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, tingle.
3.
Something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation.
verb
(past & past part. thrilled; pres. part. thrilling)
1.
Cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input.
2.
Feel sudden intense sensation or emotion.  Synonyms: tickle, vibrate.
3.
Tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement.  Synonyms: shiver, shudder, throb.
4.
Fill with sublime emotion.  Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink.  "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"



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"Thrill" Quotes from Famous Books



... exalted character of the art of benevolence which, in blessed contrast with the misery, the degradation, the wickedness of war, shall shine resplendent in the true grandeur of peace. Then shall the soul thrill with a nobler heroism than that of battle. Peaceful industry, with untold multitudes of cheerful and beneficent laborers, shall be its gladsome token. Literature, full of sympathy and comfort for the heart of man, shall appear in garments ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... ago the Japanese, who are brown, defeated the Russians, who are white. In the course of the next few months the news of this remarkable event penetrated, as we afterward learned, uttermost ends of the earth. It sent a thrill through all Asia and it was known in the darkest corners of Central Africa. Everywhere it awakened strange and fantastic dreams. This is what is ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... town automobile was waiting with a solemn chauffeur and footman who bent their eyes reverently, not to look the stricken young soldier in the face. Max had a sick thrill as he saw the smart blue monster, with its row of glittering glass eyes; it had been his Christmas present to his mother by request. When the telegram told him briefly that she had been hurt in a motor ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... round the room and came to rest finally upon Mr. Potter. The young man noticed with a thrill ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... aroma of the spruce and the jackpine; the dank, sweet scent of water-lily roots and swelling bulbs that came from a thawed-out fen at the foot of the ridge; and over all these things, overwhelming their individual sweetnesses in a still greater thrill of life, the ...
— Nomads of the North - A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars • James Oliver Curwood


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