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Shivering   /ʃˈɪvərɪŋ/   Listen
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Shiver  v. t.  (past & past part. shivered; pres. part. shivering)  To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. "All the ground With shivered armor strown."



Shiver  v. t.  (Naut.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.



Shiver  v. i.  To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. "There shiver shafts upon shields thick." "The natural world, should gravity once cease,... would instantly shiver into millions of atoms."



Shiver  v. i.  To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear. "Prometheus is laid On icy Caucasus to shiver." "The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in."






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"Shivering" Quotes from Famous Books



... old town was terrific; Great Tom was booming sullenly over the uproar; the bell of Saint Mary's was clanging with alarm; St. Giles's tocsin chimed furiously; howls, curses, flights of brickbats, stones shivering windows, groans of wounded men, cries of frightened females, cheers of either contending party as it charged the enemy from Carfax to Trumpington Street, proclaimed that the battle was ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... bed, he remembered that Martha had declared his room needed new matting and, if ever she could afford that cost, new matting it should have. Having come into possession of five thousand dollars, she might feel that she could now afford it. He climbed, shivering, out of bed again, resurrected the certificate and hid it under his pillow, an orthodox but safe hiding place for that night only. The next morning he wrapped it in a summer undergarment and placed the said garment at the ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... intensified. Standing in the trellissed verandah, her eyes fixed upon the departing forms of her husband and daughter, she has a heaviness at the heart, a presentiment of some impending danger, which seems so near and dreadful as to cause shivering throughout her frame. ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid

... whirring sound familiar to his senses, and saw the oscillating reflection of a bright light around a bend in the road; an automobile. He hastily dived into the underbrush at the side. He had no reason to be afraid, but he felt a shivering repugnance to showing himself to his fellow-creatures ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner

... blankets for years has been trifling. This tax has been a heavy burden upon the poor during this severe winter, a tax running into the millions to support protection. Heaven save a country from a system which begrudges to the shivering poor the blankets to make them comfortable in the winter ...
— American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various


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