To break into many small fragments or splinters; shatter; dash to pieces at a blow.

Synonyms Shatter, etc. See dash.

To burst, fly, or fall at once into many small pieces of parts.

To shake; shudder; tremble; quiver; specifically, to shake with cold.

Synonyms Shiver, Quake. Shudder, Quiver. We shiver with cold or a sensation like that of cold; we quake with fear; we shudder with horror. To quiver is to have a slight tremulous or fluttering motion: as, her lip quivered; to quiver in every nerve.

Nautical, to cause to flutter or shake in the wind, as a sail by trimming the yards or shifting the helm so that the wind strikes on the edge of the sail.

noun. A tremulous, quivering motion; a shaking-or trembling-fit, especially from cold.

noun. Same as shive, 1.

noun. A broken bit; a splinter; a sliver; one of many small pieces or fragments such as are produced by a sudden and violent shock or blow. Also shive.

noun. 3. In mineralogy, a species of blue slate; schist; shale.

noun. Nautical, a sheave; the wheel of a pulley.

noun. A small wedge or key.

transitive verb. To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow.

intransitive verb. To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.

noun. The act of shivering or trembling.

intransitive verb. To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.

noun. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.

noun. A thin slice; a shive.

noun. A variety of blue slate.

noun. A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.

noun. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.

noun. A spindle.

transitive verb. To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

noun. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.

verb. To break into splinters or fragments.

verb. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.

noun. The act or result of shivering.

noun. A bodily response to early hypothermia (Wikipedia).

noun. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

noun. a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement

verb. shake, as from cold

verb. tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement

"Hmm, it surprises me that I actually trusted her enough to let her cut my hair .. * shiver shiver*."

shiver my timbers  the shivers  

send shivers down someone's spine  shiver my timbers  shivered  shivering  

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Liver  deliver  downriver  giver  liver  

ache  chill  flicker  flush  flutter  

ache  aching  agitation  all-overs  atomize  

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