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Shiver   /ʃˈɪvər/   Listen
Shiver

noun
1.
A reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement.  Synonyms: shake, tremble.
2.
An almost pleasurable sensation of fright.  Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle.
verb
(past & past part. shivered; pres. part. shivering)
1.
Tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement.  Synonyms: shudder, thrill, throb.
2.
Shake, as from cold.  Synonym: shudder.



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"Shiver" Quotes from Famous Books



... wealth. Poverty did not attract him. It was not suited to his cast of mind. Poverty was humiliating. Emerson accumulated a fortune, and it added to his self-respect. Thoreau's pride in his poverty must have made Emerson shiver. ...
— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

... again!—silently companioned by the shadows of old thoughts; far from her—farther than he had ever been. For a while she lay there, watching him, scarcely breathing; then a faint shiver of utter loneliness came over her—of desire for his attention, his voice, his friendship, and the expression of it. But he never moved; his eyes seemed dull and unseeing; his face strangely gaunt to her, unfamiliar, hard. In the dim light he seemed but the ghost of what she had known, of what ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers

... answer he steered the car to the side of the road, brought it to a standstill, and descended from his seat. There was an air of deliberation about the proceeding which sent a shiver down my spine. The inference was that the enumeration of my faults was so lengthy a business that it could not be undertaken by a man who had other work in hand. I sat in nervous fascination, watching him slowly cross to my side of the car, lean forward, and place both hands on the ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... always expected to see a slender stream of blood slowly trickling. For a man called Macgregor had murdered his wife there—beaten her brains out with a poker. Beth never heard the name Macgregor in after life without a shiver of dislike. Much of her time at school was spent in solitary confinement for breaches of the peace. With a face as impassive as a monkey's she would do the most mischievous things, and was always experimenting in naughty tricks, as on one occasion when Miss ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand

... they felt themselves in duty bound to join her. Perhaps they might catch sight of a rabbit to repay them for their exertions. Donald walked with stately steps toward his mistress, and Bess was following, with a shiver of reluctance and a backward glance towards the fire-light which shone through the open door, when suddenly she sniffed the presence of a stranger, and, with a sharp yap, hurled herself down the ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice


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