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- Dictionaryshivering/ˈʃɪv(ə)rɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. shaking slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, frightened, or excited: "he bought a warm winter coat for a shivering man"
noun
- 1. the action of shaking slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, frightened, or excited: "gradually his shivering slowed"
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verb [ I ] uk / ˈʃɪv.ə r/ us / ˈʃɪv.ɚ / B2. When people or animals shiver, they shake slightly because they feel cold, ill, or frightened: The poor dog - it's shivering! He shivered with cold in his thin cotton shirt. Fewer examples. She shivered, and gathered the blanket around her. Arthur shivered involuntarily as he came out of the building.
( esp. of a person or animal) to shake slightly and quickly because of feeling cold, ill, or frightened: Your creepy look makes me shiver. Robbins shivered in the chill air. shiver.
1. : to undergo trembling : quiver. 2. : to tremble in the wind as it strikes first one and then the other side (of a sail) transitive verb.
uk / ˈʃɪv.ə r/ us / ˈʃɪv.ɚ /. B2. When people or animals shiver, they shake slightly because they feel cold, ill, or frightened: The poor dog - it's shivering! He shivered with cold in his thin cotton shirt. Fewer examples.
adjective. vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze. “sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier”. synonyms: quivery, shaky, trembling. unsteady.
v. shiv·ered, shiv·er·ing, shiv·ers. v.intr. 1. To shake or tremble, as from cold or fear. See Synonyms at shake. 2. To quiver or vibrate, as by the force of the wind. v.tr. Nautical. To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.
We shudder with horror or abhorrence; the agitation is more powerful and deep-seated than shivering or trembling: to shudder at pictures of an atrocity.
