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SHIVERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("shivering" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Derivation:
shiver (shake, as from cold)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
Example:
trembling hands
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Similar:
unsteady (subject to change or variation)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb shiver
Context examples:
Shrinking, almost shivering, he still managed to hold himself together.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Read it, sir,” he said, in a low shivering voice.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Shivering, dripping, and crying, they got Amy home, and after an exciting time of it, she fell asleep, rolled in blankets before a hot fire.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
At last, however, she fell right into the wind's eye, was taken dead aback, and stood there awhile helpless, with her sails shivering.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I too rose reluctantly; it was bitter cold, and I dressed as well as I could for shivering, and washed when there was a basin at liberty, which did not occur soon, as there was but one basin to six girls, on the stands down the middle of the room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Going in dismal weather, to return probably in worse;—four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering creatures into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He shook his head that he did not understand the speech Ivan put at him, and made that he was very weary and sick, and wished only to sit down and rest, pointing the while to his stomach in sign of his sickness, and shivering fiercely.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But a day spent in sitting shivering over the fire with a book in her hand, which she was unable to read, or in lying, weary and languid, on a sofa, did not speak much in favour of her amendment; and when, at last, she went early to bed, more and more indisposed, Colonel Brandon was only astonished at her sister's composure, who, though attending and nursing her the whole day, against Marianne's inclination, and forcing proper medicines on her at night, trusted, like Marianne, to the certainty and efficacy of sleep, and felt no real alarm.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
This argument of the seneschal's appealed so powerfully to the Bohemian and to the Hospitaller that they at once intimated that their objections had been entirely overcome, while even the Lady Rochefort, who had sat shivering and crossing herself, ceased to cast glances at the door, and allowed her fears to turn to curiosity.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“How much better is this,” said she, as she walked to the fender—“how much better to find a fire ready lit, than to have to wait shivering in the cold till all the family are in bed, as so many poor girls have been obliged to do, and then to have a faithful old servant frightening one by coming in with a faggot!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
