Quivering

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quiver \Quiv"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quivered}
     (kw[i^]v"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Quivering}.] [Cf.
     {Quaver}.]
     To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to
     tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
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           The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. --Shak.
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           And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
                                                    --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quivering
       adj : 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" [syn: {quaking}, {shaking}, {shaky},
             {shivering}, {trembling}]
       n 1: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his
            pipe" [syn: {shaking}, {shakiness}, {trembling}, {quiver},
             {vibration}, {palpitation}]
       2: the act of vibrating [syn: {vibration}, {quiver}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "quivering":
     aflicker, agitated, ague, all shook up, all-overish, anxious,
     apprehensive, aquiver, aspen, bickering, blinking, bumpiness,
     chattering, chorea, cold shivers, dance, dancing, didder, disquiet,
     disquietude, dithers, fidgetiness, fidgeting, fidgets, fidgety,
     fits and starts, flashing, flicker, flickering, flickering light,
     flickery, flicky, flutter, fluttering, fluttery, glancing light,
     heaving, in a quiver, in suspense, inquietude, jactation,
     jactitation, jerkiness, jittery, joltiness, jumpy, keyed-up,
     lambency, lambent, light show, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe,
     palpitation, palsied, palsy, panting, pitapat, pitter-patter, play,
     play of light, playing, quaking, quaver, quavering, quavery,
     quiver, quivery, restlessness, shakes, shaking, shaky, shiver,
     shivering, shivers, shivery, shook up, shudder, shuddering,
     skittery, spasms, stroboscopic, succussatory, succussion,
     succussive, taut, tense, throb, throbbing, tremble, trembling,
     trembly, tremor, tremulant, tremulous, tremulousness, trepidation,
     trepidity, twitchy, twitter, twittery, unrest, vibrating,
     vibration, wavering, wavery, with bated breath, with muscles tense,
     wobbly