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Captivate vs Thrill - What's the difference?

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Captivate is a related term of thrill.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between captivate and thrill

is that captivate is (obsolete) to take prisoner; to capture; to subdue while thrill is (obsolete) to hurl; to throw; to cast.

As verbs the difference between captivate and thrill

is that captivate is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm while thrill is (ergative) to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.

As a noun thrill is

a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.

captivate

English

Verb

(captivat)
  • To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
  • * Washington Irving
    • small landscapes of captivating loveliness
  • *, chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
  • (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their woes whom fortune captivates .
  • * Glanvill
    • 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.

    Anagrams

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    thrill

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
  • * 1937 , Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney:
    • One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through
  • * M. Arnold
    • vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the reader with sudden delight
  • * Spenser
    • The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled , / That sudden cold did run through every vein.
  • (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
  • (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
  • * Spenser
    • He pierced through his chafed chest / With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.
  • (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
  • * Heywood
    • I'll thrill my javelin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill .}}
  • A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
  • (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
  • A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

    • Derived terms

    * cheap thrill * thrill kill / thrill killing * thrill killer * thrilly