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| shiver | |
| 1. v. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. |  |
| They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air. | |
| 2. v. (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind. | |
| 3. n. The act of shivering. | |
| A shiver went up my spine. | |
| 4. n. (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp | |
| 5. n. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A thin slice; a shive. | |
| 7. n. (geology) A variety of blue slate. | |
| 8. n. (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley. | |
| 9. n. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A spindle. | |
| 11. v. To break into splinters or fragments. | |
