shiver
/ˈʃɪvɚ/ noun C2- The act of shivering. · A shiver went up my spine.
- A bodily response to early hypothermia.
Plural shivers
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“When they scratched against the tin it made a cold shiver run down my back.
The unfortunate creature’s tongue seemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been struck by lightning.
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.
“It is not cold which makes me shiver,” said the woman in a low voice, changing her seat as requested.
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