shuddering
Americanadjective
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trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
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Also shuddery. characterized by or causing a shudder.
a shuddering plunge of the ship.
Other Word Forms
- shudderingly adverb
- unshuddering adjective
Etymology
Origin of shuddering
Example Sentences
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But they had only gone a few steps before again there was a shuddering groan behind them, and Val was pulling at Strong Jonn's sleeve.
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He wanted to vault over the fallen trees and run like the wind and leave this shuddering, destructive, unpredictable piece of Earth far behind him.
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She tried again, her breath shuddering in her chest.
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George felt it too, shuddering and folding in on himself to conserve heat.
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I picked up the blue cockade again and turned it in my fingers, shuddering to think of what Jemma would do if she saw me mixing among Baltimore’s secessionists.
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