shiver
shi ver
- n a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- n an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- v tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- v shake, as from cold
The children are shivering--turn on the heat!
- There's an audible shiver as they first spy the teen vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), his impossibly gorgeous face caked in a mime's pallor, sitting in biology class next .
- Army Captain Ian Fishback's singular standafter witnessing prisoner abuse in Iraq, he cut through the fog and upheld the creed's idealssends a shiver of respect down my spine.
- Having escaped to New Jersey, they still suffer the manifold curses of the old country, still shiver in the chilly shadow of the departed Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.