chills

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Sometimes I have symptoms and other times not … .. the chills are the worst … … I get to rocking the bed so hard that things fall off the bed … ….

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  1. noun A moderate but penetrating coldness.
  2. noun A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.
  3. noun A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy: bad news that put a chill on the celebration.
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  • When Alfred informed the ex-master of the illness of his brother, of course he must hasten to the sick boy with a nice brandy-sling for the chills, and he purchased a good quantity for them all. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • I knew that, and when push came to shove I couldn't risk a worse outcome in the future. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • At first I diagnosed them as repeated chills -- I was always stripping off in open fields, often in the middle of the night-then I thought I must have a type of —  Every living thing
  • Sometimes I have symptoms and other times not … .. the chills are the worst … … I get to rocking the bed so hard that things fall off the bed … …. —  Firedoglake
  • 'What did you take, Harry?' —  The Rules of Attraction
 

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