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Shuddered

Shudder \Shud"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shuddered;p. pr. & vb. n. Shuddering.] [OE. shoderen, schuderen; akin to LG. schuddern, D. schudden to shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern to shudder, sch["u]tteln to shake, sch["u]tten to pour, to shed, OHG. scutten, scuten, to shake.] To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. ``With shuddering horror pale.''
--Milton.

The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone.
--Goldsmith.

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shuddered

vb. (en-past of: shudder)

Usage examples of "shuddered".

And Reeve shuddered to think of Todd caroming off bodies and on toes on the city sidewalks, of his voice echoing through an entire level of Aisle flats, of Pat's desperate measures to control the rebel they had released on the world and to minimize the penalties exacted for such social misdemeanors.

The smaller vessel shuddered violently as the freighter's lock clamped on to it.

The worthy woman glowered and shuddered disdainfully at his suggestion.

And sometimes,' and Ferrill shuddered,'the riders are grappled and pulled inboard.

Carialle shuddered as she remembered how the children whispered to each other in supersonic voices that only the computer monitors could pick up that after a while, you'd begin to hear things, and imagine things, and feel things that weren't there.

He drank what appeared in the hatch and shuddered as it oozed down to his stomach.

He shuddered, strengthening his flagging resolve that another such infamous incident must not be recorded about Doona.

Even if he had to straddle a horse -- Ken shuddered at the thought -- and herd the urfa himself, they were not going across that river!

Father went on with such scath ing bitterness that Nora shuddered, "has been ten tatively allowed two years of Applied Advancement.

She closed her eyes and shuddered, shaking her head sharply to rid herself of the effect.

Sev rather liked it, but his companion closed his eyes and shuddered faintly.

Channa shuddered mentally at some of the things she'd screened in that Bethel text.

Then the whole station shuddered, and the gravity fluxed sufficiently to be noticeable.

The crewman's pupils expanded in fear and he visibly shuddered, but held his place.

Most of the fur-faced humanoids shuddered and one of the children burst into tears.