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SHUDDERING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shaking convulsively or violently
Classified under:
Similar:
unsteady (subject to change or variation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb shudder
Context examples:
I feel yet parched with horror, nor can I reflect on that terrible moment without shuddering and agony.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He let the host have no rest, until the latter told him, that not far from thence stood a haunted castle where anyone could very easily learn what shuddering was, if he would but watch in it for three nights.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You shall soon learn what shuddering is, thought he, and secretly went there before him; and when the boy was at the top of the tower and turned round, and was just going to take hold of the bell rope, he saw a white figure standing on the stairs opposite the sounding hole.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
