Synonyms of the word shiver


SHIVERCHILL - FEAR - FEARFULNESS - FRIGHT - FRISSON - QUIVER - REFLEX - SHAKE - SHUDDER - THRILL - THROB - TINGLE - TREMBLE

shiver

  • v. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
  • v. (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
  • n. The act or result of shivering.
  • n. (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp.
  • n. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
  • n. (geology) A variety of blue slate.
  • n. (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
  • n. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A spindle.
  • v. To break into splinters or fragments.

chill

  • n. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
  • n. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through…
  • n. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually…
  • n. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten…
  • n. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
  • adj. Moderately cold or chilly.
  • adj. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: chill out.
  • adj. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
  • adj. (slang) Okay, not a problem.
  • v. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
  • v. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
  • v. (intransitive) To become cold.
  • v. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To relax, lie back.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
  • v. (transitive) To discourage or depress.

fear

  • n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
  • n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
  • n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
  • v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
  • v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
  • v. (transitive) Regret.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
  • adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearfulness

  • n. The quality of being fearful.

fright

  • n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
  • n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
  • adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

frisson

  • n. A sudden surge of excitement.
  • n. A shiver, a thrill.

quiver

  • n. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or…
  • n. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
  • n. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
  • n. (mathematics) A multidigraph.
  • adj. (archaic) Nimble, active.
  • v. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to…

reflex

  • n. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
  • n. (linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter…
  • n. (obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
  • adj. Bent, turned back or reflected.
  • adj. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
  • adj. (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
  • adj. (photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass…
  • v. to bend, turn back or reflect.
  • v. to respond to a stimulus.

shake

  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  • v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
  • v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
  • v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
  • v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
  • v. (intransitive) To dance.
  • v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  • n. The act of shaking something.
  • n. A milkshake.
  • n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  • n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • n. (building material) A thin shingle.
  • n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  • n. A fissure in rock or earth.
  • n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
  • n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
  • n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
  • n. A shook of staves and headings.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

shudder

  • n. A shivering tremor.
  • n. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.
  • v. (intransitive) To shake nervously, as if from fear.
  • v. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

thrill

  • v. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify;…
  • v. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
  • v. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
  • v. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
  • n. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
  • n. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
  • n. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
  • n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

throb

  • v. (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
  • v. (intransitive) To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
  • n. A beating, vibration or palpitation.

tingle

  • v. To ring.
  • v. To cause to ring.
  • v. To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
  • v. To make ringing sounds, to twang.
  • n. A prickling or stinging sensation.

tremble

  • v. (intransitive) To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
  • n. A shake, quiver, or vibration.

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