shivering

Verb (1)

shiver (third-person singular simple present shivers, present participle shivering, simple past and past participle shivered)

1. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
   • They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
2. (transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

Verb (2)

shiver (third-person singular simple present shivers, present participle shivering, simple past and past participle shivered)

1. (transitive) To break into splinters or fragments.
   • The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way / Wound with his wisdom to his wished stay; / That wandered wondrous far, when he the town / Of sacred Troy had sack'd and shivered down; […]1614–1615, Homer, “The First Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...
2. (intransitive) To be broken into splinters or fragments.
   • The dirty clay pipe dropped from the tremulous hand, and shivered against the iron fender, but the old man made no effort to find a fresh one; […]1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

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