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athrill en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈθɹɪl/

Etymology

From a- + thrill.

Meanings

  1. Thrilled, feeling a thrill; trembling or vibrating (with an emotion, movement, etc.).
    • […] an unfrequented path which lay still in the April sunshine, the lilac bushes standing up on each side all athrill and rustling with the spring, 1884, Margaret Oliphant, chapter 8, in Sir Tom, volume 3, London: Macmillan, page 121:
    • As Anne would have said at one time, it was “an epoch of her life,” and she was deliciously athrill with excitement of it. 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 33, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston: L.C. Page, page 371:
    • the passion of sublime emotion which seemed to set every living force in his body athrill 1926, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 10, in The Black Hunter, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation: