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Thrill vs Enthrill - What's the difference?

thrill | enthrill |

As verbs the difference between thrill and enthrill

is that thrill is to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation while enthrill is to pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.

As a noun thrill

is a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.

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

    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.