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athrill

[ uh-thril ]

adjective

  1. affected with a sudden wave of keen emotion or excitement; tingling (usually used predicatively):

    After the first surprise, he found himself athrill with a sense of discovery.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of athrill1

First recorded in 1875–80; a- 1 + thrill
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Example Sentences

Fifteen, and athrill with a strange new pulse; flushed, as the dawn, with the promise of day.

As Anne would have said at one time, it was "an epoch in her life," and she was deliciously athrill with the excitement of it.

At a tap on her door she changed suddenly from the aloof egoist to a woman athrill before the veil of portentous mysteries.

Inorganic matter was perceived as anything but inert; it was athrill under the action of multitudinous forces.

With nerves athrill the two boys followed their elder, wriggling cautiously over the ice.

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