thrill

IPA: θrˈɪɫ

(ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
(ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
(obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
(obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
(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.

Examples of "thrill" in Sentences

DELONG: Well, sometimes these things are just what we call a thrill killing.
So I await more info and articles on OPML from you to see what the thrill is all about!
Pat Quinn had what he described as a thrill of a lifetime when he took his turn in the Olympic torch run Wednesday.
The actual case was described at the time as the crime of the century, and the basis of the term thrill killers can trace its derivation to this very case.
I've been doing this for over two years now, but when I open the package and see that wonderful thing with my name on it, I have to say the thrill is as big as it ever was.
Professor Shairp defined the soul of poetry when he wrote: "Whenever the soul comes vividly in contact with any fact, truth, or existence, which it realizes and takes home to itself with more than common intensity, out of that meeting of the soul and its object there arises a thrill of joy, a glow of emotion; and the expression of that _glow_, that _thrill_, is poetry."