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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (US) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈʃɪvɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʃɪvə/
- Rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Etymology 1[edit]
Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel, or a frequentive of sheaf.
Verb[edit]
shiver (third-person singular simple present shivers, present participle shivering, simple past and past participle shivered)
- To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
- 1693, Thomas Creech, The thirteenth Satire of Juvenal:
- The man that shivered on the brink of sin, / Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.
- Template:RQ:Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
- He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
- They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
- (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to tremble or shake
Noun[edit]
shiver (plural shivers)
- The act of shivering.
- A shiver went up my spine.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the act or result of shivering
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a bodily response to cold
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Etymology 2[edit]
From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).
Noun[edit]
shiver (plural shivers)
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- a shiver of their own loaf
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A spindle.
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
shiver (third-person singular simple present shivers, present participle shivering, simple past and past participle shivered)
- To break into splinters or fragments.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The First Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, lines 1–4, page 1:
- The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way / Wound with his wisdom to his wished stay; / That wandered wondrous far, when he the town / Of sacred Troy had sack'd and shivered down; […]
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 24”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Norton, published 2005, page 1034:
- he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 183:
- A whole series of fault lines radiated away from this Lisbon earthquake, all of them shivering the structures of traditional order.
Etymology 3[edit]
Origin uncertain
Noun[edit]
shiver (plural shivers)
- Collective noun for a group of sharks
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