Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shivering
IPA transcription: [ʃ'ɪvɚɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: shaky, shivering, trembling
    Meaning: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: chill, shivering
    Meaning: a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
Usage examples
  • He was cold and shivering.
  • Was he shivering from fear or from cold?
  • "Isn't it cold?" said Cecily, shivering again.
  • There was no one in it; he went inside, and lay down shivering.
  • There were nine men in the water, while the cabin boy stood shivering on deck.
  • He paused a moment, however; his hat was drawn down over his eyes; he was shivering.
  • All at once he noticed that Geppetto was shivering and shaking as if with a high fever.
  • A dog accustomed to the lap is always shivering after it, and renders himself quite troublesome by his importunate addresses.
  • They were all shivering, and everything about them seemed to be shivering; the river itself; craft, rigging, sails, such early smoke as there yet was on the shore.
  • It was less cold in the creek than out at sea, thanks to the screen of rock rising over the north of the basin, which did not, however, prevent the people from shivering.