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as in shudder
an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold
the prisoner experienced a sudden shiver when confronted with the sight of the dark basement
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as in butterflies
shivers plural
a sense of panic or extreme nervousness
looking down from the window ledge sent shivers up my spine
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Recent Examples of shiver
Jon Pepper, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024
Critically acclaimed and boasting impressive performances across its cast of young actors, Better Watch Out won't give you the warm fuzzies this holiday season, but it's guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
The East Coast was blanketed in snow while people from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine shivered in bitterly cold temperatures from the frigid Arctic air mass that plunged temperatures well below normal.
—Gerald Herbert and David J. Phillip, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Winter is coming to New York, which should send a shiver — and a shudder — through residents who know how close the city came to catastrophe just two years ago, and how little has been achieved to prevent it from happening again.
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While much of the U.S. shivered, last month was the Earth's warmest January on record, European scientists announced Thursday.
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When Evil Lurks watch on shudder Every editorial product is independently selected.—
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Abraham was alone, drenched in white and walking, as small shudders passed through his body.—
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Sometimes a less reliable dog will smell in this manner the hot body scent of venison as a trembling doe crouches close in the brush upwind.—
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As the solution flowed into both of his arms, Nelson at first trembled, then died in silence with his eyelids, on which dollar signs are tattooed, closed.—
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The two funds still split 42% of the stock, with a current market value of $650 million.—
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But this incident certainly isn't the first time that split rumors have haunted the Biebers.—
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However, the partnership ended in early 2025, just weeks before this heist shook the crypto sphere.—
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But shake off the stress because there are bountiful touch-up options on the market to conceal any unwanted color (or lack thereof).—
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The muscles on the haunches of the poor animal quivered and jerked from the exertion.—
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Frazier moved his outstretched hands in a circular movement for the first minute or so before beginning to grimace and quiver on the gurney.—
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The apartment building, vacant and under construction, was later torn down.—
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Lauder tore down homes on both properties, before putting them on the market in 2023.—
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In this puzzle, however, the things that are shaking are quaking ASPENS.—
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Your emotions may be shaking and quaking deep within.—
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The mission's rover will look inside the icy crater for water ice and other volatiles – chemical elements that can vaporize into a gas – at the lunar south pole.—
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Couches and mattresses, TVs and refrigerators, tires and toys, even clothes are full of polyurethane and plastics, which vaporize into a toxic smoke once they’re set on fire, said Dr. Gina Solomon, chief of the Division of Occupational, Environmental and Climate Medicine at UC San Francisco.—
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“Shiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiver. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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