thrill

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation

   the thrills of space travel

2. 2
   verb

   feel sudden intense sensation or emotion

   We were thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine.

3. 3
   verb

   fill with sublime emotion

   The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies

4. 4
   verb

   cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input

   The men were thrilled by a loud whistle blow

5. 5
   verb

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

   The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, / That sudden cold did run through every vein.

6. 6
   verb

   To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.

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

7. 7
   verb

   To hurl; to throw; to cast.

   I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture

8. 8
   noun

   A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.

   She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

Etymology

From Old English þȳrlian (“to pierce”), derived from þȳrel (“hole”) (archaic English thirl). Doublet of thirl (verb).