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THRILLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling intense pleasurable excitement
Classified under:
Similar:
excited (in an aroused state)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb thrill
Context examples:
I knew not what had aroused me, but I found myself out of my bunk, on my feet, wide awake, my soul vibrating to the warning of danger as it might have thrilled to a trumpet call.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He then thrilled the assembly by some account of the terrible carnivorous dinosaurs, which had on more than one occasion pursued members of the party, and which were the most formidable of all the creatures which they had encountered.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The mind had gone out of them, and they could but look at this woman and listen to the words which fell from her lips—words which thrilled through their nerves and stirred their souls like the battle-call of a bugle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her voice was soft and sweet, and persuasive at the first, but louder it rang and louder as it spoke of wrongs and freedom and the joys of death in a good cause, until it thrilled into my every nerve, and I asked nothing more than to run out of the cottage and to die then and there in the cause of my country.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Suddenly, your circle will grow, and you’ll be thrilled to have such new influences in your life.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
She thrilled deliciously at the thought.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Shaking from head to foot, thrilled with ungovernable excitement, I continued—I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again as long as I live.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It struck me that he was joyous, in a ferocious sort of way; that he was glad there was an impending struggle; that he was thrilled and upborne with knowledge that one of the great moments of living, when the tide of life surges up in flood, was upon him.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
To every traveller it was a sight of beauty, but to me it was the world—the great wide free world—and my heart thrilled and fluttered as the young bird’s may when it first hears the whirr of its own flight, and skims along with the blue heaven above it and the green fields beneath.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Both became overshadowed by a new and indefinable horror; and when I awoke—or rather when I shook off the lethargy that bound me in my chair—my whole frame thrilled with objectless and unintelligible fear.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
