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shuddering

verbnounattested in dialogue

An extended or continuous shudder.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of shudderpresent participle and gerund of shudder

    The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]

    They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.

noun

  1. 1

    An extended or continuous shudder.

Forms

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

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