Her voice was quivering with anger.
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Quivering
//ˈkwɪvəɹɪŋ//
Synonyms for "quivering" (124 found)
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Related words (62)
pitapatpitter patterpitter-patterplayplay of lightplayingquakingquaverquaveringquaveryquiverquiveryrestlessnessshakeshakesshakingshakyshivershiveringshivers
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shiveryshook upshuddershudderingskitteryspasmspasmsstroboscopicsuccussatorysuccussionsuccussivetauttensethrillthrobthrobbingtimoroustrembletremblingtremblytremortremulanttremuloustremulousnesstrepidationtrepiditytwitchytwittertwitteryunrestvibevibratingwaveringwaverywith bated breathwith muscles tensewobbly
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Translations
2 translations across 2 languages.
Esperanto
1 entries- tremanta adj (shaking, shivering)
Spanish
1 entries- tiritón adj (shaking, shivering)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
In a quivering voice she cried "Help!"
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All straightway gird them to the feast. These flay / the ribs and thighs, and lay the entrails bare. / Those slice the flesh, and split the quivering prey, / and tend the fires and set the cauldrons in array.
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"So saying, his mighty spear, with all his force, / full at the flank against the ribs he drave, / and pierced the bellying framework of the horse. / Quivering, it stood; the hollow chambers gave / a groan, that echoed from the womb's dark cave."
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