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shivering

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈʃɪvəɹɪŋ//

The action of a person or thing that shivers; a trembling.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of shiverpresent participle and gerund of shiver

noun

  1. 1

    The action of a person or thing that shivers; a trembling.

    He was shivering due to the cold temperature in the room.

    Generally speaking, the attack does not involve more inconvenience than this; but in some cases there are shiverings and flushings, cough, loss of appetite, and pain in the right side...

Forms

plural
shiverings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).