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shiver




Definizioni

inglese > italiano
shiver
     1. sost. brivido, tremolio, scheggia
     2. verb. rabbrividire, tremare
     3. verb. rompere in frantumi
inglese > inglese
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. subst. The act of shivering.
           A shiver went up my spine.
     4. subst. (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp
     5. subst. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
     6. subst. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
     7. subst. (geology) A variety of blue slate.
     8. subst. (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
     9. subst. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
     10. subst. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A spindle.
     11. v. To break into splinters or fragments.

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Esempi d'uso

Made a shiver go right down to my feet. 
This is supplemented with an unexplained bundle of charcoal and vials of mercury that shiver periodically, like the viewer's nerves. 



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