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To shake or vibrate jerkily or nervously

Make a sudden flinching movement out of fear or pain

Give or cause to give a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement

Be undecided between two opinions or courses of action

To make a loud, and usually emotional, cry

Anticipate with great apprehension or fear

An act of shuddering

An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm

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To shake or vibrate jerkily or nervously

swing backwards and forwards

change one's position

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“I've made some mistake that I still shudder to think about.”

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Make a sudden flinching movement out of fear or pain

baulk^UK

balk^US

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Give or cause to give a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement

agonize^US

agonise^UK

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Be undecided between two opinions or courses of action

be unable to make up your mind

temporize^US

temporise^UK

go from one extreme to the other

keep changing your mind

be on the horns of a dilemma

second-guessing oneself

move backward and forward

let the grass grow under one's feet

while away time

roll about

push and pull

move backwards and forwards

stay in the background

be reluctant to come forward

move from side to side

second-guessing yourself

curl

think something unlikely

have reservations about

harbour suspicions about

express reservations about

harbour reservations about

fluctuate on

feel uneasy about

have hesitations about

express suspicions about

entertain doubts about

have suspicions about

have one's doubts about

balk^US

kick the can down the road

put off doing something

take a raincheck

baulk^UK

take turns

fumble for words

trip over your tongue

speak falteringly

stumble over your words

speak haltingly

swing backwards and forwards

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To make a loud, and usually emotional, cry

clamour^UK

clamor^US

call at the top of your voice

moult^UK

call at the top of one's voice

molt^US

criticize^US

criticise^UK

agonize^US

agonise^UK

turn on the waterworks

talk under your breath

complain vehemently about

beef about

kick up a stink about

jump down one's throat

cry as if one's heart would break

breathe down someone's neck

get on someone's back

give a hard time

give someone a hard time

wring one's hands over

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Anticipate with great apprehension or fear

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An act of shuddering

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“But I think that first-degree murder verdict should send a shudder through the defendant.”

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An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm

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