The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. An extended or continuous shudder. vb. (present participle of shudder English)
WordNet
adj. shaking convulsively or violently
Usage examples of "shuddering".
Teresa, shuddering in every limb, dared not approach the slain ruffian but by degrees, and threw a hesitating glance at the dead body over the shoulder of her lover.
Inured as men may be to danger, forewarned as they may be of peril, they understand, by the fluttering of the heart and the shuddering of the frame, the enormous difference between a dream and a reality, between the project and the execution.
Well, Edmond, I swear to you, by the head of that son for whom I entreat your pity, -- Edmond, for ten years I saw every night every detail of that frightful tragedy, and for ten years I heard every night the cry which awoke me, shuddering and cold.
The ship was shuddering like a frightened animal in the changing geometry.
After a frightful, shuddering pause, he mastered himself enough to manage the echo of his most wicked smile.
Jieret warned, eyes pinched shut against the spasm of agony that wrenched him to shuddering paralysis.
Subject to bouts of spinning faintness, followed by shuddering palsy, he handled himself with eggshell tenderness and kept still as much as he could.
Wrapped shuddering at last in the reclaimed comfort of his original garments, Braggen caught the sword back.
The discomfort compounded the raced thud of her heart, and the shuddering weakness that remorselessly threatened to unstring her.
Doubled over his clasped hands, he curled in on himself, racked by a shuddering spasm.
Exhaustion remained, a shuddering weakness that burdened his frame like dipped lead.
He died of arrows, of quarrels, of cold steel thrust deep into shuddering flesh.
Their grip had plucked her from her feet, up into the air, where she was thrashing and shuddering in a frantic fight, kicking her legs helplessly.
His first act was to lean against the walls, in a corner where two came together, and his second was to force his essence slowly out to every fingertip of the trembling, shuddering form, making it truly his.
Now, shuddering at his folly and in winded exhaustion, he stared at the raw end of his right arm and gathered his will, letting resolve grow slowly cold and hard within him.