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biver

biver verb: to shiver; to tremble, shake, quiver.

Verb

biver (third-person singular simple present bivers, present participle bivering, simple past and past participle bivered)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To shiver; to tremble, shake, quiver.
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Forms of biver

third-person singular presentbivers
present participlebivering
past participlebivered
pastbivered

Origin of biver

From Middle English biveren, beveren (“to tremble”), frequentative form of Old English beofian, bifian (“to tremble, be moved, shake, quake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bibēn, from Proto-Germanic *bibāną (“to quake, shiver”). Cognate with West Frisian bibberje (“to shiver”), Dutch bibberen (“to shiver, quiver”), Low German beveren (“to shiver”), German Low German bevern (“to tremble”), German bibbern (“to shiver”). Related also to Dutch beven (“to quake”), German beben (“to quake, tremble”), Swedish bäva (“to quake, tremble”), Icelandic bifa (“to budge, be moved”), Latin foedus (“disgusting, shocking, abominable, heinous”).

Questions about biver

What does biver mean?
Biver means to shiver; to tremble, shake, quiver.
What part of speech is biver?
Biver is a verb.
What is the past tense of biver?
The past tense of biver is bivered.

Words near biver in the dictionary

  1. Bivens
  2. biventer
  3. biventers
  4. biventral
  5. biventricular
  6. biver
  7. biverbal
  8. bivered
  9. bivering
  10. bivers
  11. biverticillate

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