Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shiver
plural shiverings
- The action of a person or thing that shivers; a trembling.
He was shivering due to the cold temperature in the room.
1 more example
Generally speaking, the attack does not involve more inconvenience than this; but in some cases there are shiverings and flushings, cough, loss of appetite, and pain in the right side...
1847, Fleetwood Churchill, Robert M. Huston, The diseases of females: including those of pregnancy and childbed
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivevibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
nouna sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Hindi ठिठुरन, कँपकँपी
- ठिठुरन (ṭhiṭhuran)the act of trembling with cold or fear
- कँपकँपी (kãpkãpī)the act of trembling with cold or fear
- सिहरन (sihran)the act of trembling with cold or fear
Māori korohāwini, rūrūtake
- korohāwinithe act of trembling with cold or fear
- rūrūtakethe act of trembling with cold or fear
- tūngāwirithe act of trembling with cold or fear
- tūhauwirithe act of trembling with cold or fear
- turiwaitaitaithe act of trembling with cold or fear
Persian لرز
- لرز (larz)the act of trembling with cold or fear
Spanish tiritona, tiritera
- tiritonathe act of trembling with cold or fear
- tiriterathe act of trembling with cold or fear
Cite this entry
shivering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shivering
“shivering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shivering. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shivering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shivering.
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