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Copulate vs Enthrill - What's the difference?

copulate | enthrill |

As verbs the difference between copulate and enthrill

is that copulate is to engage in sexual intercourse while enthrill is to pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.

As an adjective copulate

is joined; associated; coupled.

copulate

English

Verb

(copulat)
  • To engage in sexual intercourse.

    • Synonyms

    * fuck, make love, screw, swive, bang, sleep together * See also

    Related terms

    * copulin * copulation

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    enthrill

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.
  • *1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem :
    • 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.
  • To cause to thrill.
  • *1839 , George Robert Wythen Baxter, Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Don Juan Junior :
    • [...] for then a glance from her she knew, Could inthrill his heart, enrapture and control [...]
  • *1890 , William Clark Russell, A marriage at sea :
    • 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.
  • (sex) To copulate; have sexual intercourse.
  • *1867 , Mrs. Henry Wood, Lady Adelaide's oath :
    • She's getting enthrilled by him; she is, my lord. I saw 'em meet just now in the wood.