shiver
Meaning of shiver
noun
- The act of shivering.
A shiver went up my spine.
- A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp
- To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
- To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- A thin slice; a shive.
- A variety of blue slate.
- A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- A spindle.
verb
To break into splinters or fragments.
Information about shiver
- The plural form of shiver is: shivers.
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Hyphenation of shiver
shiver
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- shiver is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
shiver synonyms
Meaning tremble:
Meaning frisson:
frisson, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle
Meaning shudder:
Translation of shiver
- Spanish: estremecer, temblar
- Portuguese: estremecer, tiritar
- French: frissonner, trembler, frémir, tressaillir, vibrer
- Italian: tremare, rabbrividire, trasalire
- German: zittern
Anagrams of shiver
hivers, shevri, shrive, Viresh
Words that rhyme with shiver
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