to shiver
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1.2
- verb
- /ˈʃɪvər/
- As soon as I stepped outside, I started to shiver from the biting cold air.
- shiver with cold
- shiver with fear
- begin to shiver
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- Is it worth someone's mum in a pool of tears shivering in the corner of a room because you've murdered her kid?
- So if you want to get your body heat, your thermogenic level to go up, you need to shiver.
- You wouldn't surprise them if you if you run up behind them and Chuck an ice cold bucket of water over them, they start to shiver.
- And I started to shiver because this was the scene I had seen in the near death experience of me standing in front of thousands of people.
- No one shivers slightly looking up there.
- And then I would shiver as much as possible.
- So a cod sitting in and and in like the seas of Antarctica isn't sitting there shivering in pain.
- Sitting, he's shivering, I'm shavering and I say to him, so I don't want to disturb you, I said, but I was in shock.
- They don't care about you or your hung three children or your shivering granny or your kids rotting school or your two year wait for an operation.
Examples
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When I got out at Twenty-first and Prairie, I was shivering from the desolation of the scene.
Fiction book (1990) -
One small girl from the inner city was shivering and holding her arms while glancing upward.
Academic text (1994) -
And he started shivering and shaking.
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"You cold," they say, shivering, as the wind blows through the window.
Academic text (1994) -
In the predawn chill, many of the girls shiver as they wait their turn with the soap.
Academic text (1991) -
I slumped against the cold door, shivering, my face pressed to the wood.
Fiction book (1990) -
Drove away from the house faster than I legally should have, shivering the entire time, either from fear or the cold, maybe a little of both.
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Come on, can't you see he's shivering with cold?
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"You're safe now, we're home free," Gabe told Jazz, who was shivering in spite of her heavy sweater.
Fiction book (1990) -
I can't stop shivering.
Synonyms
71
3.7
To shake suddenly because you feel cold, afraid, or very upset
3
2.6
To shiver with sudden excitement or fear
2
4.6
To tremble a lot because you are afraid, nervous, or cold
To shake slightly, often because of cold or strong feeling
Idioms
- Informal
6
5.9
A sudden feeling of fear or excitement that moves along your back
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Shiver as a verb comes from the same old idea of 'small broken pieces' — imagine your body breaking into many tiny movements. That's why to shiver means to shake slightly and uncontrollably because of cold, fear, or excitement.