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Answer for the clue "Work about sixty minutes? That's exciting ", 6 letters:
thrill

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Word definitions for thrill in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang , boot , charge , rush , flush , kick ] an almost pleasurable sensation ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrill \Thrill\, n. [AS. [thorn]yrel an aperture. See Thrill , v. t.] A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion. vb. 1 (context ergative English) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation. 2 (context ergative English) To (cause ...

Usage examples of thrill.

The thrill of finding an allusion, of locating the precise source of a teasing echo, of suddenly catching an obscure pun or seeing what should have been an obvious joke makes the reader alert, curious, eager to find new puzzles to solve.

Tetlow shuddered, yet was moved and thrilled, too, as he glanced from face to face--those hideous hairy countenances, begrimed and beslimed, each countenance expressing in its own repulsive way the one emotion of gratified longing for food and drink.

Shivering from excitement, fear, the thrill of experience and discovery, she arched her hips, and Brok eased in, more and more.

Center thrilled by the latest Imperial sound technology, a hydrodynamic music system.

We do prefer the weird and thrilling, as Mannie had said, to the dull and commonplace.

Felipe loved both baseball and the Mets and had been thrilled when Lo Manto came across with the two tickets, plus enough money to cover a visit to the Diamond Club, but still played it close and tried not to appear too eager.

The Marches admired the impressive sight with a thrill of patriotic pride in the fact that the whole world perhaps could not afford just the like.

Anticipation thrilled through my limbs as I pictured marvels equaling the geese, or even the life-sized painted statues of a noble couple that had been found in another mastaba in the same cemetery.

Her magical low voice, more melodious in tone than the sound of harps played by moonlight on the water, thrilled in his ears and set his pulses beating madly,--with an effort he checked the torrent of love-words that rushed to his lips, and looked at her in a sort of wildly wondering appeal.

It was several years since Lois had been at Benediction and at first she was thrilled by the gleaming monstrance with its central spot of white, the air rich and heavy with incense, and the sun shining through the stained-glass window of St.

They took a coach to Florence, riding on the outside because they were nigra, and Abner thrilled to the journey, for he had no memory of anything outside Savannah.

He and Dalton from a high crest looked back toward the vast panorama of hills, valleys, rivers and forest that had held for them so many thrilling and terrible memories.

He was, after all, supposed to be a bit of a diplomat as well as a soldier, and he figured that Parral would not be overly thrilled by having one of his court bravos butchered two seconds into the fight.

The thrill of fear which had crossed the mind of Villiers, as to the health and preservation of his wife, had served to dissipate the lingering sense of shame and degradation inspired by the penury of their situation.

Walser thrilled, as always, to the shop-soiled yet polyvalent romance of the image.