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  1. chill, shiveringadjective

    a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever

    Synonyms:
    shudder, tingle, chill, iciness, shiver, quiver, thrill, gelidity, pall, frisson

    Antonyms:
    steady

  2. shaky, shivering, tremblingadjective

    vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze

    "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"

    Synonyms:
    wonky, shaky, precarious, wobbly, rickety, trembling

    Antonyms:
    steady

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  1. shiveringadjective

    Synonyms:
    friable, brittle, frangible, BRASH, easily shivered, not compact

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "shivering":

    shaking, trembling, throbbing

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#13815shaking
#14709thrill
#27144trembling
#30673shaky
#34810throbbing
#35818pall
#37290shudder
#37328precarious
#37899shiver
#43658quiver
#44082shivering
#45943tingle
#50319wobbly
#81924rickety
#87233wonky
#163733frisson

How to use shivering in a sentence?

  1. Fred Frazier:

    To see a little girl running alone by herself, that’s when he got very concerned, and she was shivering and cold. she stays right where she was told to stay.

  2. Scott C. Holstad:

    when it’s time to break down and you’re lying in bed fighting off the urge to scream, when you’re lying there shivering, it’s not the memories that keep you going. instead it’s the dreams and the cats blaring evil and godlike into the blankness. at times like this, it’s best just to sit back and let what is be.

  3. Mike Tipton:

    If your blood sugar falls too far, you'll lose your shivering ability and your perception of cold, you'll tend to think you're warmer than you are.

  4. Sterling Candland:

    She was shivering then, and it was 60 degrees that day, she's not going to make it much longer, we didn't think. But once she got into placement, and she was able to actually get healthy meals and rehydration, she bounced back.

  5. Adrian Vella:

    In humans, brown adipose tissue likely explains about 1% or 2% of energy expenditure in cold situations, and shivering explains far more, so it's an exaggeration, between 1996 and 2009, I believe the environment has changed.


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