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aquiver

UK/əˈkwɪvə/US/əˈkwɪvɚ/

aquiver adjective: in a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.

Adjective

aquiver (not comparable)

  1. In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
    • Sighing softly to the river
      Comes the lonely breeze,
      Setting Nature all a-quiver,
      Rustling through the trees,1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC, page 35
    • There is no colour line in love, and though a-quiver with ungovernable fright, for Ursula's sake black Woona went graphically through the final death contortions of the poisoned mangy pup.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 279

aquiver meaning in Tamil

aquiver in Tamil

நடுக்கம்

Examples of aquiver in a sentence

  • He had gone inland about half a mile when there came suddenly to his trained nostrils the one scent that sets the whole savage jungle aquiver—Tarzan smelled man.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 190:
  • He said "Stand and deliver / For I am all aquiver."1926, R.P. Weston, Bert Lee, What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee:

Origin of aquiver

From a- + quiver.

Words that rhyme with aquiver

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Questions about aquiver

What does aquiver mean?
Aquiver means in a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
What is aquiver in Tamil?
Aquiver in Tamil is நடுக்கம். See Aquiver meaning in Tamil.
How do you use aquiver in a sentence?
He had gone inland about half a mile when there came suddenly to his trained nostrils the one scent that sets the whole savage jungle aquiver—Tarzan smelled man.
What part of speech is aquiver?
Aquiver is an adjective.
How do you pronounce aquiver?
Aquiver is pronounced /əˈkwɪvə/ (UK).

Words near aquiver in the dictionary

  1. Aquitanians
  2. aquitard
  3. aquitardal
  4. aquitards
  5. aquitted
  6. aquiver
  7. aquocobalamin
  8. aquod
  9. aquodic
  10. aquods
  11. aquoll

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aquiver (page history and authors); aquiver (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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