Thrill

Quick meaning: Thrill is a verb meaning (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.

Meaning

(ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.

More Meanings

1. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
2. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.
3. (figurative) A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
4. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
5. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
6. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
7. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.

Example Sentences

I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture

One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through

he perced through his chaufed chest / With thrilling point of deadly yron brand

The thrill is gone / Gone, gone for me / I still live on, lonely though I'll be

Word Forms

• thrills
• thrilling
• thrilled

Synonyms for thrill

Depending on context, synonyms include awaken, electrify, enflame, enkindle, enthrill, exagitate.

Antonyms for thrill

Common opposites include allay, assuage, cool, curb, extinct, extinguish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frisson, exhilarate, tickle, shiver, shudder, tingle.

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