thrill
/θɹɪl/ verb B2- To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation. · 1854, Matthew Arnold, Preface to Poems vivid and picturesque turns of expression […] which thrill the reader with a sudden delight
- To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
He/she/it thrills · Past thrilled · Past participle thrilled · -ing form thrilling
Verb forms
- Base form
- thrill
- He/she/it
- thrills
- Past
- thrilled
- Past participle
- thrilled
- -ing form
- thrilling
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“Such a thrill as went up and down my back, Marilla!
That was a thrilling book, Marilla.
I imagined how perfectly thrilling it would be to take it to Idlewild and play I was the Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald.
There is a piece in the Fifth Reader--‘The Downfall of Poland’--that is just full of thrills.
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