beshiver

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ shiver.

Verb

beshiver (third-person singular simple present beshivers, present participle beshivering, simple past and past participle beshivered)

1. (transitive, poetic, archaic) Synonym of shiver (“break into fragments”)
   • 1674, Robert Herrick, To Find God:

     Tell me the people that do keep / Within the kingdoms of the deep; / Or fetch me back that cloud again, / Beshivered into seeds of rain.