shiver
/ˈʃɪvɚ/ verb B1- To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. · They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.· The cold made me shiver.
- To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
He/she/it shivers · Past shivered · Past participle shivered · -ing form shivering
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- He/she/it
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- Past
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- Past participle
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- -ing form
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From the library
And shivering in my nakedness,
“Ugh!” said the Lory, with a shiver.
The whole apartment was of a rigidity not to be described in words, but which sent a shiver to the very marrow of Anne’s bones.
When Prissy Andrews, attired in a new pink-silk waist with a string of pearls about her smooth white throat and real carnations in her hair--rumor whispered that the master had sent all the way to town for them for her--“climbed the slimy ladder, dark without one ray of light,” Anne shivered in luxurious sympathy; when the choir sang “Far Above the Gentle Daisies” Anne gazed at the ceiling as if it were frescoed with angels; when Sam Sloane proceeded to explain and illustrate “How Sockery Set a Hen” Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea; and when Mr.
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