Crossword clues for thrill
thrill
- Tickle pink
- Make ecstatic
- Really excite
- Type of ride
- Exciting event
- Wave of excitement
- Surge of exhilaration
- Rush of excitement
- Rollercoaster ride, e.g
- Roller-coaster ride feeling
- Roller coaster's appeal
- Roller coaster rider's sensation
- Roller coaster ride, e.g
- Roller coaster excitement
- It might be cheap
- Enjoyment, and then some
- Cause quivers
- Adrenaline rush
- Action film fan's sensation
- Send
- Electrification
- Goal for some seekers
- Excitation
- An almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- The swift release of a store of affective force
- Home-team home run, e.g.
- Cause to vibrate
- Delight
- Ooh and ah producer
- Excitement; stimulate
- Excitement hard to capture in sound of bird
- Work about sixty minutes? That's exciting
- Kick and thrash, not as hard but with difficulty
- Sudden excitement
- Feeling of excitement
- Hour inside where money is kept that’s exciting
- It's a pleasure to cultivate, taking little time
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrill \Thrill\ (thr[i^]l), n. [See Trill.] A warbling; a trill.
Thrill \Thrill\, n. [AS. [thorn]yrel an aperture. See Thrill, v. t.] A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
Thrill \Thrill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrilling.] [OE. thrillen, [thorn]irlen, [thorn]urlen, to pierce; all probably fr. AS. [thorn]yrlian, [thorn]yrelian, Fr. [thorn]yrel pierced; as a noun, a hole, fr. [thorn]urh through; probably akin to D. drillen to drill, to bore. [root]53. See Through, and cf. Drill to bore, Nostril, Trill to trickle.]
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To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. [Obs.]
He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.
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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.
To bathe in flery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice.
--Shak.Vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the ?eader with sudden delight.
--M. Arnold.The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, That sudden cold did run through every vein.
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To hurl; to throw; to cast. [Obs.]
I'll thrill my javelin.
--Heywood.
Thrill \Thrill\, n.
A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.
A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.
--Burns.
Thrill \Thrill\, v. i.
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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.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins.
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To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
To seek sweet safety out In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "to pierce, penetrate," metathesis of Old English þyrlian "to perforate, pierce," from þyrel "hole" (in Middle English, also "nostril"), from þurh "through" (compare Middle High German dürchel "pierced, perforated;" see through) + -el. Meaning "give a shivering, exciting feeling" is first recorded 1590s, via metaphoric notion of "pierce with emotion." Related: Thrilled; thrilling.
"a shivering, exciting feeling," 1670s, from thrill (v.). Meaning "a thrilling experience" is attested from 1936.
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 something to) tremble or quiver. 3 (context obsolete English) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. 4 (context obsolete English) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
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 of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, tingle]
something that thrills; "the thrills of space travel"
v. cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input; "The men were thrilled by a loud whistle blow"
feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: tickle, vibrate]
tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement [syn: shudder, shiver, throb]
fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, inebriate, exalt, beatify]
Wikipedia
Thrill or Thrills may refer to:
Thrill is a pay television horror channel in Asia owned by Celestial Tiger Entertainment and billed as Asia's first and only movie channel dedicated to 24/7 to the horror suspense genre. It primarily broadcasts Hollywood and Asian horror films (primarily Japanese, Taiwanese, South Korean, Hong Kong, Filipino and Indonesian) but also airs other programs including thrillers and Western supernatural dramas.
Thrill is a 2008 Indian Malayalam film directed by B Venugopal.
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.