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View synonyms for athrill
athrill
[ uh-thril ]
adjective
- 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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Fifteen, and athrill with a strange new pulse; flushed, as the dawn, with the promise of day.
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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.
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At a tap on her door she changed suddenly from the aloof egoist to a woman athrill before the veil of portentous mysteries.
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Inorganic matter was perceived as anything but inert; it was athrill under the action of multitudinous forces.
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With nerves athrill the two boys followed their elder, wriggling cautiously over the ice.
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