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Shudder   /ʃˈədər/   Listen
Shudder

noun
1.
An almost pleasurable sensation of fright.  Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, thrill, tingle.
2.
An involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear).  Synonym: tremor.
verb
(past & past part. shuddered;pres. part. shuddering)
1.
Shake, as from cold.  Synonym: shiver.
2.
Tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement.  Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb.



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"Shudder" Quotes from Famous Books



... him, and a scene met The Kid's eyes that caused him to shudder. In the big, dank room were huddled fourteen prisoners. Most of them were miserable, half-naked peons. It was intolerably hot, and the air was so bad as almost ...
— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens

... an abominable crime of which you know yourself to have been innocent. For weeks I lived under the belief that I was to be made away by the hangman, and to leave behind me a name that would make every one who has known me shudder." ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

... Emilie felt an icy shudder, though no one perceived it. Thanks to the good breeding of the best society, she completely concealed the rage in her heart, and answered her sister-in-law with the words, "I knew it," with a fulness of intonation and inimitable decision which the most famous actress of ...
— The Ball at Sceaux • Honore de Balzac

... were to order her to be searched! The horror of the indignity made her shudder, but she would have submitted to that, if thereby she could have saved Deroulede. But of this she could not be sure until after she had looked through the papers, and this she had not ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... waiting, and a poky house, and his opposition to all she might want to do upon her own account. She had a vision of his lowering face, his savage mouth. She remembered all her joys in his arms. A shudder shook Sally at thought of his vengefulness, his fierce strength. And then, when she was married to Gaga, she would be mistress of so much that she desired. It was a desperate problem. The more she thought of it, ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton


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