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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To shiver convulsively, as from fear or revulsion. See Synonyms at shake.
  2. v. To vibrate; quiver: The airplane shuddered in the turbulence.
  3. n. A convulsive shiver, as from fear or revulsion; a tremor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To shake; quiver; vibrate.
  2. Hence, in particular, to tremble with a sudden convulsive movement, as from horror, fright, aversion, cold, etc.; shiver; quake.
  3. To have a tremulous or quivering appearance, as if from horror.
  4. Synonyms Quake, etc. See shiver.
  5. n. A tremulous motion; a quiver; a vibration.
  6. n. Specifically, a quick involuntary tremor or quiver of the body, as from fear, disgust, horror, or cold; a convulsive shiver.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A shivering tremor.
  2. n. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.
  3. v. intransitive To shake nervously, as if from fear.
  4. v. intransitive To vibrate jerkily.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
  2. n. The act of shuddering, as with fear.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
  2. v. tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
  3. v. shake, as from cold
  4. n. an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear)

Etymologies

  1. Either from Middle Dutch schudderen or from Middle Low German schoderen (whence also Danish skudre). Cognate with Dutch schudden and German schaudern. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English shodderen, perhaps of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. quake
  1. quiver
  1. shaken
  1. horror
  1. shiver

hypernyms (9)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. fearfulness
  1. fright
  1. fear
  1. tremble
  1. move involuntarily
  1. move reflexively
  1. quivering
  1. quiver
  1. vibration

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. shiver
  2. sob
  3. spasm
  4. whimper
  1. sneeze
  2. tighten
  3. twitch
  4. tingle
  1. yelp
  2. hiccough
  3. wheeze
  4. jolt
  1. quiver
  2. titter
  3. wince
  4. paroxysm
  1. giggle
  2. hiccup
  3. retch
  4. affright
  1. palpitation
  2. vomit
  3. ache
  4. lurch

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. rudder
  1. scudder

reverse dictionary (18)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. shuther
  2. shiver
  3. ugh
  1. vibratiunculation
  2. quiver
  3. shuddering
  1. frisson
  2. grise
  3. grue
  1. gruesome
  2. agrise
  3. perhorresce
  1. shudderingly
  2. UG
  3. quake
  1. shrink
  2. tremble
  3. fic

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