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quivering

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪvəɹɪŋ/

adj

  1. shaking, shivering

    The quivering mass of jello rocked back and forth incessantly but remained on the plate.

    You envied me in all my great successes — Jerusalem, Lazarus, Mock Election, pupils, drawings, lectures ; and at all times tried to prove they were not successes, with a pale face and quivering lip — more pale and more quivering than usual.

noun

  1. A motion by which something quivers or trembles.

    quiverings of the eyelid

    The quiverings of incipient harmony were hushed, and the divine sat in speechless and almost terrified astonishment, while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of quiver