Thrill vs Thrall - What's the difference?
thrill | thrall |
(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:
* M. Arnold
* Spenser
(ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
(obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
* Heywood
A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, 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.
One who is enslaved or under mind control.
* 14th century , ,
* 1915 , ,
(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
* 1864 , ,
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A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
As verbs the difference between thrill and thrall
is that thrill is to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation while thrall is to make a thrall.As nouns the difference between thrill and thrall
is that thrill is a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion while thrall is one who is enslaved or under mind control.thrill
English
Verb
(en verb)- One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through
- vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the reader with sudden delight
- The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled , / That sudden cold did run through every vein.
- He pierced through his chafed chest / With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.
- I'll thrill my javelin.
Noun
(en noun)George Goodchild
Derived terms
* cheap thrill * thrill kill / thrill killing * thrill killer * thrillythrall
English
Noun
(en noun)- My servant, which that is my thrall by right
- And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls , and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
- Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
- [Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
- In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.