exhilarate

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people excited and interested
absorbed
animate
arouse someone's curiosity
be someone's bagidiom
bedazzle
breathe
interest someone in something
intoxicate
intrigue
occupy
overexcite
stir
stretch
suspensive
sweep
sweep someone along
talk something up
tantalize
the Thames
whip

thrill | American Dictionary

thrill
noun[ C ]
us/θrɪl/
a feeling of great excitement and pleasure:
It gave me a thrill to see her again after so many years.

thrill

verb[ I/T ]us/θrɪl/
[ T ]Just standing next to him thrilled her.

Examples of thrill

thrill
Men, women, scientists, soldiers, speculators - they were all thrilled to be there.
The more thrilling a new document seems to be, the more reserve and historical critiques are requested.
Seeing the large and extremely interested crowds thrilled and delighted me.
The rhythmical and rhyming effects are very obvious in these two stanzas; say them out loud to hear what a thrilling effect they have.
High scorers tend to endorse social norms, act in a cautious and restrained manner, and avoid thrills.
Individuals high on constraint tend to avoid thrills, endorse social norms, and act in a cautious and restrained manner.
Though it made for thrilling newspaper copy, an expectant public were horrified by the tragedy; sensational news was soon followed by bitter charges and debates.
He was thrilled to be having a part in the play because, of course, he'd not been on stage for thirty-five years.
The reference to movement and dance in part 3 to 'share, communicate and support own thoughts and feelings about music' is equally thrilling.
At the very least, we would want to come away from the study somehow thrilled.
The real thrills in reading this book, however, are the endlessly fascinating examples of evolution and ecology in action.
The results are bracing, obsessional and ultimately thrilling - these performances are required listening.
There appear to be a number of systolic ejection murmurs, ten with palpable thrills.
Like flat blueprints, the physics presented herein is only thrilling to a select few in the form of mathematics.
I remember seeing him and his flamboyant and enthusiastic style, just so thrilled by the beautiful geometric structure of cointegration.
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