athrill

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/əˈθɹɪl/

adjective

Thrilled, feeling a thrill; trembling or vibrating (with an emotion, movement, etc.).

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Meanings

adjective
  1. Thrilled, feeling a thrill; trembling or vibrating (with an emotion, movement, etc.).

    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
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    […] 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

Origin

From a- + thrill.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with athrill

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Anagrams

Hartill
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “athrill,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/athrill.

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