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# thrill

«thrill» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sudden strong feeling of excitement and pleasure** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a thrill, thrills); verb (thrill, thrills, thrilled, thrilling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thrill is a sudden strong feeling of excitement and pleasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#m1)

2) To thrill someone is to make them very excited and happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#m2)

3) Thrilled (adjective) means very pleased. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it describes excitement: rides, sports, surprises, adventures. Phrases: the thrill of, a thrill ride, thrills and spills, thrilled to bits (UK), thrill seeker.

### examples

- The roller coaster gave me a real thrill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#x1)
- I was thrilled when I won the spelling bee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#x2)
- The goal thrilled the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#x3)
- Feel the thrill of your first ride on a horse! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#x4)
- Mum was thrilled to bits with her birthday card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#x5)
- Some people love the thrill of danger, but safety comes first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#x6)
- It was a thrill to meet a real author at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#x7)
- Wendy’s heart went flutter with a sudden thrill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: thrilled, thrilling. Thrilling (adjective) = very exciting; thriller = an exciting story or film, often about crime. Thrilled is stronger than pleased.

### In the corpora

- [Near the spot the Rat feels «a faint sort of electric thrill» through his arm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/27/)
- [Secrets attracted Toad «because he never could keep one», and he enjoyed the thrill of telling one after promising not to.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thrill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.