shivering
/'ʃivəriɳ/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Shaking or trembling slightly and uncontrollably, typically due to cold, fear, or illness: Describes a physical state of rapid, slight vibrations of the body or an object.
Noun:
- The action or fact of shaking or trembling: The act of shivering.
- A sensation of cold accompanied by shaking, often preceding a fever: A specific bodily symptom.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- The shivering child was wrapped in a warm blanket.
- We saw the shivering leaves in the cold wind.
Noun:
- A sudden shivering came over her as the fever began.
- He tried to control his shivering from the cold.
Advanced Usage
- "to be shivering with...": Used to indicate the cause of the trembling.
- She was shivering with fear after hearing the noise.
- They were shivering with cold in the unheated room.
Variants and Related Words
- Shiver (verb): To shake slightly and uncontrollably.
- I shiver every time I step outside in winter.
- Shiver (noun): A momentary trembling movement or sensation.
- A shiver ran down my spine.
- Shivery (adjective): Causing or characterized by shivers; chilly.
- It was a shivery morning.
Synonyms
- Trembling: Shaking involuntarily.
- Quivering: Shaking with a slight, rapid motion.
- Shuddering: Trembling convulsively, typically from horror or disgust.
Related Phrases
- Shivering fit: A short period of intense shivering.
- A shivering fit overtook him before his temperature soared.
- The shivers: A state or episode of shivering (informal).
- That ghost story gave me the shivers.
Adjective
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- a quaking bog
- the quaking child asked for more
- quivering leaves of a poplar tree
- with shaking knees
- seemed shaky on her feet
- sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier
- trembling hands
Noun
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever