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shiver

UK /ˈʃɪvə/US /ˈʃɪvɚ/

noun 10
verb 4
forms 3
phrases 1

noun10

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The act of shivering.
- A shiver went up my spine.
A bodily response to early hypothermia.
A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
•
A group of sharks.
- 'Don't you remember?" she said. 'One was off the bow, another alongside, yet another off the stern. A shiver of sharks.' — 2000
A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
A variety of blue slate.
A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
(dialect, no longer used) A thin slice; a shive.
(dialect, no longer used) A spindle.

verb4

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To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
- They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
- The cold made me shiver.
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
•
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; […] — 1614
•
To be broken into splinters or fragments.
- The dirty clay pipe dropped from the tremulous hand, and shivered against the iron fender, but the old man made no effort to find a fresh one; […] — 1862

forms

shivered · shivering · shivers

Phrases with shiver

shiver me timbers
A sarcastic remark indicating that the speaker is not scared.

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