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To shake slightly or uncontrollably
“She sees the three girls shiver in fear and immediately walks over to comfort them.”
To feel cold to the point of physically shaking
“The temperature would suddenly drop, and I began to shiver from the cold.”
To shatter or break into small pieces
“Dutton thinks that the crust of the earth, under horizontal pressure, would not and could not yield gradually and quietly so as to retain its continuity, but would shiver into fragments.”
To give, or cause to give, a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement
To make a sudden flinching movement out of fear or pain
To be physically affected by extreme cold
To break something by forcing it inwards or piercing it roughly
A feeling of nervousness or restlessness
“His feral stare sent a shiver down my spine, but Audrey remained as composed as ever.”
Plural for a trembling or quivering movement
“That laughter causes vibration. I see its shiver in the air. It touches the leaves and the flag on someone's balcony.”
Plural for each of the small fragments into which something such as glass is shattered when broken
“He recounts for Lynch the actual case of a young woman whose heart was pierced by a shiver of glass as she rode to a reunion with her mother, then relates the incident to his theory of art.”
Plural for a sudden, sharp localized pain
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