Word Meanings - SHUDDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith. (more info) shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern to shudder, schütteln

Additional info about word: SHUDDER

To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith. (more info) shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern to shudder, schütteln to shake,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHUDDER)

• Blench
• Start
• shy
• shudder
• recoil
• shrink
• Quake
• Tremble
• shake
• vibrate
• quiver
• quaver
• Shiver \i Quake
• tremble
• Shake
• quake
• totter
• shiver
• jar

Related words: (words related to SHUDDER)

• QUAVERER
  One who quavers; a warbler.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• BLENCH
  deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• QUAKER
  1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• VIBRATE
  brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• SHRINKING
  from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• QUAKERISH
  Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• QUAKERESS
  A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• QUAVER
  be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Sir I. Newton. 2. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill
• SHRINKER
  One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
• QUIVERED
  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
• SHUDDER
  To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith. (more info) shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern to shudder, schütteln
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• ICEQUAKE
  The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• COWQUAKE
  A genus of plants ; quaking grass.
• REDSTART
  A small, handsome European singing bird , allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native
• UNDERLOAD STARTER
  A motor starter provided with an underload switch.