shiver

verb

/ˈʃɪvɚ/US/ˈʃɪvə/UK

Etymology

From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).

derived from though unattested

Definitions

1
To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
- They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
- The man that shivered on the brink of sin, / Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
3
The act of shivering.
- A shiver went up my spine.
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1. A bodily response to early hypothermia.
2. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
3. 6
  A thin slice
  A thin slice; a shive.
  - a shiver of their own loaf
4. A variety of blue slate.
5. A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
6. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
7. A spindle.
8. 11
  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; […]
  - But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
  - he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
9. 12
  To be broken into splinters or fragments.
  - 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret 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; […]
10. A group of sharks.
11. A surname.

The neighborhood

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Derived

ashiver, beshiver, nonshivering, shiverer, shiveringly, shivering owl, shiver my sides, shiver my soul, shiversome, shivery, shivvy, toshiver, unshivered, unshivering, shiver my timbers, send shivers down someone's spine, send a shiver down someone's spine, shiver me timbers

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shiver. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at shiver. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at shiver

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA