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[ noun ] the swift release of a store of affective force
Examples "they got a great bang out of it" "what a boot!" "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin" "he does it for kicks" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)The crowd at the twenty-first annual K._of_C._Games , final indoor meet of the season , got a thrill a_few minutes earlier when a slender , bespectacled woman broke the one week old world_record in the half-mile run . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)It was a thrill he felt no part in . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
Examples "a frisson of surprise shot through him" Used in print (Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)It had been shut again , but the lock was broken ; he noted with a thrill of fear that the door moved under his touch . |
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[ noun ] something that thrills
Examples "the thrills of space travel" Related terms |
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[ verb ] fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage)
Synonyms Examples "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies" "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" Related terms |
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