SHIVERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shivering mean? 

• SHIVERING (noun)
  The noun SHIVERING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SHIVERING used as a noun is very rare.

• SHIVERING (adjective)
  The adjective SHIVERING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SHIVERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIVERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

chill; shivering

Hypernyms ("shivering" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Derivation:

shiver (shake, as from cold)

• SHIVERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

shaky; shivering; trembling

Context example:

trembling hands

Similar:

unsteady (subject to change or variation)

 Context examples 

“Look! You are shivering. Don’t deny it; you are. And here I have been lying warm as toast.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Bless the girl, what are you shivering about?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shivering or moderate tremors of the body often accompanied by a cold sensation.

(Chills, NCI Thesaurus)

Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot coffee, for I observe that you are shivering.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the super-sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His pulse was feeble and intermittent, but his breathing grew longer, and there was a little shivering of his eyelids, which showed a thin white slit of ball beneath.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I then paused, and a cold shivering came over me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then the man went shivering with fear; and as he was going down to the shore a dreadful storm arose, so that the trees and the very rocks shook.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He made a movement to disengage himself, but she clung more closely to him, shivering violently.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With drooping tail and shivering body, very forlorn indeed, he aimlessly circled the tent.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)