shuddering

3 definitions found

shuddering - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Shudder \Shud"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shuddered;p. pr. & vb.
     n. Shuddering.] [OE. shoderen, schuderen; akin to LG.
     schuddern, D. schudden to shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern
     to shudder, sch["u]tteln to shake, sch["u]tten to pour, to
     shed, OHG. scutten, scuten, to shake.]
     To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver
     with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." --Milton.
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           The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. --Goldsmith.
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shuddering - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  shuddering
      adj 1: shaking convulsively or violently

shuddering - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "shuddering":
     abhorrence, abomination, ague, allergy, antagonism, antipathy,
     aspen, aversion, bumpiness, chattering, chorea, cold shivers,
     cold sweat, creeping flesh, disgust, enmity, fits and starts, hate,
     hatred, horror, hostility, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness,
     joltiness, loathing, mortal horror, nausea, palsied, palsy,
     quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering, quivery, repugnance,
     repulsion, shakes, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivers, shivery,
     spasms, succussatory, succussion, succussive, trembling, trembly,
     tremulous, tremulousness, vibrating, vibration, wobbly