Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shudder
They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.
2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo1 more example
The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]
1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveshaking convulsively or violently
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shuddering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shuddering
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