Synonyms for shivering
shiv·er·ing

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1. chill, shiveringadjective

   a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever

   Synonyms:
   shudder, tingle, chill, iciness, shiver, quiver, thrill, gelidity, pall, frisson

   Antonyms:
   steady

2. shaky, shivering, tremblingadjective

   vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze

   "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"

   Synonyms:
   wonky, shaky, precarious, wobbly, rickety, trembling

   Antonyms:
   steady

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1. shiveringadjective

   Synonyms:
   friable, brittle, frangible, BRASH, easily shivered, not compact

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1. List of paraphrases for "shivering":

   shaking, trembling, throbbing

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How to use shivering in a sentence?

1. Scott C. Holstad:

   when it’s time to break down and you’re lying in bed fighting off the urge to scream, when you’re lying there shivering, it’s not the memories that keep you going. instead it’s the dreams and the cats blaring evil and godlike into the blankness. at times like this, it’s best just to sit back and let what is be.

2. Fred Frazier:

   To see a little girl running alone by herself, that’s when he got very concerned, and she was shivering and cold. she stays right where she was told to stay.

3. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

   I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

4. Sydney Smith:

   To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

5. Galina Baryshnikova:

   Her legs were moving, she had convulsions, her whole body was shaking, i put socks on her, then a robe, then a blanket, but she was shivering to such an extent, I ca n’t even describe it.