thrill
Speech parts
1. thrill - Noun
2. thrill - Verb
Meaning
A warbling; a trill.
To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.
To hurl; to throw; to cast.
To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.
To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.
A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.
The proportion of things thrill the eye.
The thrill is in the chase, not the quarry.