quiver
/ˈkwɪvɚ/ verb C2- To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
He/she/it quivers · Past quivered · Past participle quivered · -ing form quivering
Verb forms
- Base form
- quiver
- He/she/it
- quivers
- Past
- quivered
- Past participle
- quivered
- -ing form
- quivering
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The poor old fellow was white and quivering from the shock.
Her eyes shone with the joy of living, and her face still quivered with amusement at some remark of her companion.
On these his eager, questioning eyes were fixed, and I saw on his keen, alert face that tightening of the lips, that quiver of the nostrils, and concentration of the heavy, tufted brows which I knew so well.
Rachel, her face scarlet with anger, her lips quivering, and her whole slender form trembling from head to foot.
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