shiver
IPA: ʃˈɪvɝ
noun
- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.ᵂᵖ
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A spindle.
- Collective noun for a group of sharks
- A surname.
verb
- To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
- (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
- To break into splinters or fragments.
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Examples of "shiver" in Sentences
- He was shivering with the morning cold.
- She falls to the floor, still shivering.
- Dogs shiver in order to produce body heat.
- Once you're starting to shiver, the magic fades.
- The ferrets were found cold and shivering in a hedgerow.
- Baby finds the Doberman, shivering and whimpering in pain.
- Nothing that puts that kind of shiver up your spine is dull.
- The students shiver in their uniform while attending classes.
- Deb gets back to the hospital unscathed, shivering in despair.
- A different kind of shiver ran through Jane when he said that.
- Hell, the page I posted uses "shiver" twice, for Christ's sake.
- Shivering is a frequent occurrence in the post operative period.
- Even today there's a minority who shiver in indignation and disbelief.
- A kind of shiver ran through the country last week as the coffin was dug up.
- There was a kind of shiver, and Trace heard something go chink on the floor near his boot.
- Hmm, it surprises me that I actually trusted her enough to let her cut my hair .. * shiver shiver*.
- But Kafka has that magic of actuality in even the most dislocated phrase that no other modern has, a kind of shiver + grinding blue ache in your teeth.
- He leaps at the trees and hoofs through the bracken, eyes wide in despair; his moonlit pelt spattered by mud and debris as hand-echoed huntcalls shiver the air.
- Such an apology was always humiliating, and usually painful, but what made her shiver was the chance of being denied death at the end, of being forced to continue as if nothing had occurred while everyone, common as well as the Blood, knew her degradation.
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