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as in shudder
an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold
the prisoner experienced a sudden shiver when confronted with the sight of the dark basement
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as in butterflies
shivers plural
a sense of panic or extreme nervousness
looking down from the window ledge sent shivers up my spine
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Recent Examples of shiver
The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Dividend cuts ‘would send shivers through Wall Street’ Clark Williams-Derry, energy finance analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a non-profit organization, said trimming the share buybacks is likely Big Oil’s easiest option.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
In the morning, Mum found it under the table, shivering from cold and fear.
—Literary Hub, 20 Nov. 2025
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Noun
That’s partly why the Atlas launch sent shivers through Silicon Valley.
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An unexpected puppy rescue has captured hearts on social media after a California woman in Hawaii stumbled on a tiny, shivering puppy in the field next to their house on the island.
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To be frank, Bug is a nightmarish experience — but not in an overt, shudder-inducing way.—
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But as the season progressed, the [shudders] discourse really went off the rails.—
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The kind of person who trembles at watermarks is not the sort of person who dares to put marble in the dishwasher.—
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The Maine trembled and angled up, then listed to port, throwing him from his chair.—
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Arsenal’s first half in the 4-1 home win against Aston Villa a week ago — when the visitors continuously broke through the middle of the pitch — was the perfect example of what happens when their partnership is split up, in this case by Rice’s knee injury.—
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In the aftermath, Venezuelan society became further split between the wealthy, who wanted to work with the US, and the working class, who sought autonomy from the US.—
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Though that part of the bit didn't quite land, Storrie followed Williams out to the podium, shaking profusely from nerves of attending their first Globes.—
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In this sense, these nerves behave in a very similar manner to biological pain responses.—
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Light shaking was detected, and people in several cities - including Hercules, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland and Fremont - reported feeling the tremor, according to the USGS DYFI report.—
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Trim the dead parts, shake the soil off, and store them in a cool, dark location where they are protected from the cold.—
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Audiences are already quivering with anticip— ation.—
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A-fib is an irregular, quivering or often rapid heart rhythm resulting from the heart’s upper chambers, the atria, beating out of sync with the lower chambers, the ventricles.—
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While fleeing their home out of fear that the animals would tear down its fragile structure with the family of six inside, Citra unfortunately fell into the elephants’ path.—
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Thune has consistently opposed tearing down the filibuster.—
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The jiggly, quaking contraption is eye-catching—a natural social media star.—
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Anyone whose legs have quaked after step-ups, or whose chest has felt personally attacked by push-ups, would argue: yes.—
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“Shiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiver. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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