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- Dictionaryshivering/ˈSHiv(ə)riNG/
adjective
- 1. shaking slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, frightened, or excited: "he bought a warm winter coat for a shivering man"
noun
- 1. the action of shaking slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, frightened, or excited: "gradually his shivering slowed"
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SHIVERING definition: 1. present participle of shiver 2. When people or animals shiver, they shake slightly because they…. Learn more.
SHIVER definition: 1. When people or animals shiver, they shake slightly because they feel cold, ill, or frightened…. Learn more.
The meaning of SHIVER is one of the small pieces into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence. How to use shiver in a sentence.
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Come into the warm - you're shivering with cold. SHIVERING meaning: 1. present participle of shiver 2. When people or animals shiver, they shake slightly because they…. Learn more.
We shudder with horror or abhorrence; the agitation is more powerful and deep-seated than shivering or trembling: to shudder at pictures of an atrocity.
shivering - vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
Synonyms for SHIVERING: trembling, shaking, twitching, quivering, vibration, shuddering, tremor, oscillation; Antonyms of SHIVERING: steady, stable, controlled, firm, settled, resting, relaxing, unwinding
Shiver, quake, shudder refer to a vibratory muscular movement, a trembling, usually involuntary. We shiver with cold, or a sensation such as that of cold: to shiver in thin clothing on a frosty day; to shiver with pleasant anticipation. We quake esp. with fear: to quake with fright.
To cause to break suddenly into fragments or splinters. An instance of shivering or trembling. A shaking, quivering, or trembling, as from fear or cold. An attack of shivering. Used with the. A fragment or splinter of something broken, as glass. (geology) A variety of blue slate.
