Enthrill vs Enthral - What's the difference?
enthrill | enthral |
To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.
*1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem :
To cause to thrill.
*1839 , George Robert Wythen Baxter, Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Don Juan Junior :
*1890 , William Clark Russell, A marriage at sea :
(sex) To copulate; have sexual intercourse.
*1867 , Mrs. Henry Wood, Lady Adelaide's oath :
To hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate.
To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.
In lang=en terms the difference between enthrill and enthral
is that enthrill is to cause to thrill while enthral is to make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.As verbs the difference between enthrill and enthral
is that enthrill is to pierce; penetrate; run through; stab while enthral is to hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate.enthrill
English
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* (l)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- [...] for then a glance from her she knew, Could inthrill his heart, enrapture and control [...]
- 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.
- She's getting enthrilled by him; she is, my lord. I saw 'em meet just now in the wood.