shivering
shi vuh ring
- n a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- v tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- v shake, as from cold
The children are shivering--turn on the heat! - s vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier
- Three years ago, an Indian from the Amazonian backwa- ters arrived at the house in Manaus, Brazil, of biologist Marc van Roosmalen holding a tin can with a little monkey shivering .
- There's the inconsiderate co-worker who decided to drag himself to the office and spent the day sniffling, sneezing and shivering in the cubicle next to yours.
- On a winter's day in late 1998, Kim Myong Suk, 20, lay shivering and weak from hunger on the cold concrete floor of a cell in a prison camp in North Korea, not far from the Chinese .