Beshiver

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Synonym of shiver (“break into fragments”). archaic, poetic, transitive

    "Tell me the people that do keep / Within the kingdoms of the deep; / Or fetch me back that cloud again, / Beshivered into seeds of rain."

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"Tell me the people that do keep / Within the kingdoms of the deep; / Or fetch me back that cloud again, / Beshivered into seeds of rain."

Etymology

From be- + shiver.

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