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enthrill en · VERB

From en- + thrill.

(transitive) To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.
- Yea, though Christ from the skies hold out never so moving lures unto us, all of them (haggard like) we will turn tail to, and haste to the iron fist, that holds out nought but a knife to enthrill us. 1815, Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem:
(transitive) To cause to thrill.
- […] for then a glance from her she knew, Could inthrill his heart, enrapture and control […] 1839, George Robert Wythen Baxter, Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Don Juan Junior
- Long years ago, amid the sunny hills Where Arno dashing makes the maddest mirth, A master lived whose melody enthrills, And ever will, the children of the earth. 1890, William Clark Russell, A marriage at sea:
(nonstandard, transitive) To charm; to enthrall.
- She's getting enthrilled by him; she is, my lord. I saw 'em meet just now in the wood. 1867, Mrs. Henry Wood, Lady Adelaide's oath:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
enthrilling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
inthrill		alternative	lexicographic
enthrilled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
enthrilled	Tense=Past		lexicographic
enthrills	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic