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Definition of Shivering
1. Adjective. Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze. "Trembling hands"
2. Noun. A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever.
Definition of Shivering
1. Verb. (present participle of shiver) ¹
2. Noun. The action of shivering. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shivering
1. shiver [v] - See also: shiver
Medical Definition of Shivering
1. Involuntary trembling or quivering of the body caused by contraction or twitching of the muscles, a physiologic method of heat production in man and other mammals. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shivering
Literary usage of Shivering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... woods' expiring lay, To note the red leaf shivering on the spray, To mark the
last bright tints the mountain stain, On the waste fields to trace the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"And in truth he was shivering, all the bright joyousness gone from the face just
now so eager. " Perhaps, when we have been married a little time, ..."
3. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"... is surely an excess to forswear a single garment, and rely upon hair to cover
your body, as you look to impudence to protect your shivering arguments! ..."
4. A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, John Wesley Powell (1908)
"... Wonderland of Crags and Pinnacles—Poverty Rations — Fast and Furious Plunging
Waters — Boulders Boom along the Bottom — Chilly Days and shivering—A Wild ..."
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