Synonyms of the word

thrill

• v. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify;…
• v. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
• v. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
• v. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
• n. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
• n. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
• n. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
• n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

bang

• n. A sudden percussive noise.
• n. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
• n. An explosion.
• n. (US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
• n. (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
• n. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
• n. (figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
• n. (slang, mining) An explosive product.
• n. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
• v. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
• v. (slang, figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
• v. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
• adv. Right, directly.
• adv. Precisely.
• adv. With a sudden impact.
• interj. a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound.
• n. (in the plural) Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

beatify

• v. (transitive) To make blissful.
• v. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
• v. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a…

boot

• n. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
• n. A blow with the foot; a kick.
• n. (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and…
• n. A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
• n. (US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a…
• n. A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice…
• n. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and…
• n. (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
• n. (US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
• n. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
• n. (informal) The act or process of removing or firing someone.
• n. (Britain, slang) unattractive person, ugly woman.
• n. (firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended…
• n. (baseball) A bobbled ball.
• n. (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
• v. To kick.
• v. To put boots on, especially for riding.
• v. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
• v. (informal) To forcibly eject.
• v. (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
• v. (slang) To vomit.
• n. (dated) remedy, amends.
• n. (uncountable) profit, plunder.
• n. (obsolete) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in…
• n. (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To profit, avail, benefit.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
• n. (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
• v. (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
• n. A bootleg recording.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

chill

• n. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
• n. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through…
• n. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually…
• n. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten…
• n. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
• adj. Moderately cold or chilly.
• adj. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: chill out.
• adj. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
• adj. (slang) Okay, not a problem.
• v. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
• v. (intransitive) To become cold.
• v. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To relax, lie back.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
• v. (transitive) To discourage or depress.

elate

• v. (transitive) To make joyful or proud.
• v. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.
• adj. elated; exultant.
• adj. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.

exalt

• v. (transitive) To honor; to hold in high esteem.
• v. (transitive) To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.

excitation

• n. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
• n. The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
• n. (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of…
• n. (physics) The change in state as an excited state is formed by the absorption of a quantum of energy.

excite

• v. (transitive) To stir the emotions of.
• v. (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
• v. (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron…
• v. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

excitement

• n. (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
• n. (countable) something that excites.

exhilarate

• v. (transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy.
• v. (transitive) To excite, to thrill.

exhilaration

• n. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
• n. The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.

fear

• n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
• n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
• n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
• v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
• v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
• v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
• v. (transitive) Regret.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
• adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearfulness

• n. The quality of being fearful.

flush

• n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
• v. (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
• v. (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
• adj. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
• adj. Wealthy or well off.
• adj. (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
• adj. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
• adj. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
• n. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
• n. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
• n. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind;…
• n. Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
• n. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
• v. (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
• v. (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
• v. (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or…
• v. (transitive) To cause to blush.
• v. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
• v. (transitive) To excite, inflame.
• v. (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
• v. (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
• v. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
• v. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
• v. (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
• v. (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient,…
• v. (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which,…
• n. (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

fright

• n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
• n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
• adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

frisson

• n. A sudden surge of excitement.
• n. A shiver, a thrill.

inebriate

• n. A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous…
• v. (intransitive) To become drunk.
• adj. intoxicated; drunk.

intoxicate

• v. To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
• adj. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

quiver

• n. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or…
• n. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
• n. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
• n. (mathematics) A multidigraph.
• adj. (archaic) Nimble, active.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to…

rush

• n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
• n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
• n. The merest trifle; a straw.
• n. A sudden forward motion.
• n. A surge.
• n. General haste.
• n. A rapid, noisy flow.
• n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
• n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
• n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
• n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
• n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
• n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
• n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
• v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
• v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
• v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
• v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
• v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
• adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

shake

• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
• v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
• v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
• v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
• v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
• v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
• n. The act of shaking something.
• n. A milkshake.
• n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
• n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
• n. (building material) A thin shingle.
• n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
• n. A fissure in rock or earth.
• n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
• n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
• n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
• n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
• n. A shook of staves and headings.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

shiver

• v. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
• n. The act or result of shivering.
• n. (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.^Wp.
• n. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
• n. (geology) A variety of blue slate.
• n. (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
• n. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A spindle.
• v. To break into splinters or fragments.

shudder

• n. A shivering tremor.
• n. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.
• v. (intransitive) To shake nervously, as if from fear.
• v. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

stimulate

• v. To encourage into action.
• v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

stir

• v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
• v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
• v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
• v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
• v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
• v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
• v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
• n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
• n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
• n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
• n. (slang) Jail; prison.

throb

• v. (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
• v. (intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
• n. A beating, vibration or palpitation.

tickle

• n. The act of tickling.
• n. A feeling resembling the result of tickling.
• n. (Newfoundland) A narrow strait.
• v. (transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter and twitching.
• v. (intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
• v. (transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
• v. (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.
• v. (intransitive) To feel titillation.
• v. (transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating…
• adj. Changeable, capricious; insecure.

tingle

• v. To ring.
• v. To cause to ring.
• v. To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
• v. To make ringing sounds, to twang.
• n. A prickling or stinging sensation.

tremble

• v. (intransitive) To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
• n. A shake, quiver, or vibration.

uplift

• v. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional…
• v. (aviation, travel) to be accepted for carriage on a flight.
• n. The act or result of being uplifted.
• n. (geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
• n. (colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.

vibrate

• v. To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
• v. To resonate.
• v. To brandish; to swing to and fro.
• v. To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
• v. To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
• n. The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most)…