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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



... picked out of a bundle of things hidden in the cedars, and flung at the shivering blonde, who promptly scrambled into it, and drew from one of the pockets a cap, which he jammed down upon his curly pate. Then swooping down he caught up the feminine gear lying upon the ground, jammed it pell mell into a laundry bag, and heaved it over the ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... scene Tom Hardesty pressed on, turning neither to the right nor left, except when he turned a corner. As the wind dashed the driving snow in his face, he drew his cloak more closely around him, and, shivering, passed on with cheerful thoughts of love and matrimony. Sometimes the boys pelted him with their snowy artillery, or old acquaintances inquired after his health, but he glided on like a dim shadow, heedless alike of all. By degrees the holiday din of the village ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various

... said Wogan, "a gentleman of Ireland. You will pardon me. But I have gone through so much these last three nights that I can barely stand;" and dropping into a chair he dragged it up to the door of the stove, and crouched there shivering. ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason

... the picture, poor souls! Well, since we're all alive, let's go break the news gently to the grown-ups." Blue Bonnet looked around the drenched, shivering group and then burst ...
— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs

... Our division bivouacked around one of the rebel redoubts. It was filled with rebel wounded, whose groans and cries made the night hideous. The ground was a bed of liquid mud, and the rain still poured. No fires were allowed, and the men stood shivering all night rather than ...
— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens


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