shiver

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(Earl Otterby 's shed now in profile, Thu 23 Oct, 16: 10, Reply) * shiver* that really is giving me the fear!

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  1. intransitive verb To shake with or as if with cold; tremble. See Synonyms at shake.
  2. intransitive verb To quiver or vibrate, as by the force of the wind.
  3. transitive verb Nautical To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.

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tremor ·  tingle ·  twinge ·  quiver ·  gasp ·  jolt ·  thrill ·  throb ·  flicker ·  chill ·  surge ·  ripple

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shiver:   shivers ·  shivered ·  shivering
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  1. Middle English chiveren, shiveren.
  2. Middle English shiveren, from shivere, splinter; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English shiver, schivere, schyvere, schyvyr, shever, schevir (plural scivren, scifren), prob. from Anglo-Saxon * scifera (not recorded), a thin piece, a splinter, = Old High German skivero, a splinter of stone, Middle High German schivere, schiver, schever, a splinter of stone or wood, especially of wood, German schiefer (later Swedish skiffer = Danish skifer), a splinter, shiver, slate; with formative -er (-ra), from Teutonicskif, separate, part, whence Anglo-Saxon sciftan, part, change, etc.: see shift. Prob. connected in part with shive: see shive. Hence shiver, v., and ult. skiver, skewer, q. v.
  2. from Middle English shiveren, schyveren, scheveren (= Middle Dutch scheveren, split, = Middle High German schiveren, German schiefern, separate in scales, exfoliate); from shiver, n.
  3. Early modern E.also shever; an altered form, perhaps due to confusion with shiver, of chiver, chyver, from Middle English chiveren, cheveren, chyveren, chivelen, chyvelen; apparently an assibilated form of * kiveren, supposed by Skeat to be a Scandinavian form of quiver: see quiver. The resemblance to Middle Dutch schoeveren, “to shiver or shake” (Hexham), is apparently accidental; the verb is transitive in Kilian.
  4. from shiver, v.
 

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