Shuddering

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
shuddering
    adj 1: shaking convulsively or violently
    
from The 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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from 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

    

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