Definition of "thrill"

thrill¹

/θɹɪl/

verb
third-person singular simple present thrills, present participle thrilling, simple past and past participle thrilled
1. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
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  The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, / That sudden cold did run through every vein.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 37
  vivid and picturesque turns of expression […] which thrill the reader with a sudden delight
  1854, Matthew Arnold, Preface to Poems
  One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through
  1937, Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline (lyrics and music), “One Song”, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney
2. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
3. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
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  he perced through his chaufed chest / With thrilling point of deadly yron brand
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 42
4. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
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  I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture
  1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age
noun
plural thrills
1. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
  Quotations
  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.
  1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
2. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
3. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
4. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

thrill²

/θɹɪl/

verb
third-person singular simple present thrills, present participle thrilling, simple past and past participle thrilled
1. (machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.

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