thrilling

Verb (1)

thrill (third-person singular simple present thrills, present participle thrilling, simple past and past participle thrilled)

1. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
   • The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled,
     That sudden cold did run through every vein.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37

   Synonyms:

   rouse

2. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
3. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
   • he perced through his chaufed chest
     With thrilling point of deadly yron brand1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42
4. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
   • I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age

   Synonyms:

   fling, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk

Verb (2)

thrill (third-person singular simple present thrills, present participle thrilling, simple past and past participle thrilled)

1. 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.

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