shiver

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

shivers

V_ing/Gerund

shivering

V_ed/pp

shivered

1.
To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
2.
(transitive)(nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
3.
(transitive)To break into splinters or fragments.
4.
(intransitive)To be broken into splinters or fragments.
1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret 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; […]

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

shivers

1.
The act of shivering.
A shiver went up my spine.
2.
(medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
3.
A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
4.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete, UK, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
5.
(geology) A variety of blue slate.
6.
(nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
7.
A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
8.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete, UK, dialect) A spindle.
9.
(collective)A group of sharks.

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

beshivershiversome shivery shivvytoshiverunshiverednonshiveringshiveringly unshiveringashivershiverershiver my sidesshiver my soulshiver my timbersshivering owlfrisson

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Nguồn gốc từ

Origin, perhaps an alteration of chavel, or a frequentive of sheaf.