thrill

«thrill» in Mova's school dictionary: a sudden strong feeling of excitement and pleasure — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a thrill, thrills); verb (thrill, thrills, thrilled, thrilling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A thrill is a sudden strong feeling of excitement and pleasure. tree →

2) To thrill someone is to make them very excited and happy. tree →

3) Thrilled (adjective) means very pleased. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it describes excitement: rides, sports, surprises, adventures. Phrases: the thrill of, a thrill ride, thrills and spills, thrilled to bits (UK), thrill seeker.

examples

• The roller coaster gave me a real thrill. tree →
• I was thrilled when I won the spelling bee. tree →
• The goal thrilled the crowd. tree →
• Feel the thrill of your first ride on a horse! tree →
• Mum was thrilled to bits with her birthday card. tree →
• Some people love the thrill of danger, but safety comes first. tree →
• It was a thrill to meet a real author at school. tree →
• Wendy’s heart went flutter with a sudden thrill. tree →

note

Regular verb: thrilled, thrilling. Thrilling (adjective) = very exciting; thriller = an exciting story or film, often about crime. Thrilled is stronger than pleased.

In the corpora

• Near the spot the Rat feels «a faint sort of electric thrill» through his arm.
• Secrets attracted Toad «because he never could keep one», and he enjoyed the thrill of telling one after promising not to.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thrill» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.