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Shiver
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 The act of shivering.
"A shiver went up my spine."
- 2 A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- 3 Collective noun for a group of sharks. collective
- 4 a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement wordnet
- 5 A bodily response to early hypothermia.
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- 6 A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.; A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh Norfolk
- 7 an almost pleasurable sensation of fright wordnet
- 8 A thin slice; a shive. UK, dialectal, obsolete
"a shiver of their own loaf"
- 9 A variety of blue slate.
- 10 A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- 11 A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- 12 A spindle. UK, dialectal, obsolete
- 1 To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
"They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air."
- 2 To break into splinters or fragments.
"The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way / Wound with his wisdom to his wished stay; / That wandered wondrous far, when he the town / Of sacred Troy had sack'd and shivered down; […]"
- 3 shake, as from cold wordnet
- 4 To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind. transitive
- 5 tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement wordnet
Etymology
Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel, or a frequentive of sheaf.
Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel, or a frequentive of sheaf.
From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).
From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).
Origin uncertain
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