quivering

[ kwiv-uh-ring ]

/ ˈkwɪv ə rɪŋ /

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adjective

trembling or shaking with a slight, rapid motion, or seeming to tremble or shake: The sun climbed higher and movement ceased: over the whole summit, figures lay still in the quivering heat.Forty hertz is really fast, like the quivering light from a faulty fluorescent bulb.

noun

an act or instance of shaking with a slight but rapid motion:The quivering in the heart upsets the normal rhythm between the atria and the lower parts of the heart, the ventricles.

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Origin of quivering

quiver¹ + -ing² for the adjective; quiver¹ + -ing¹ for the noun

OTHER WORDS FROM quivering

quiv·er·ing·ly, adverbun·quiv·er·ing, adjective

Words nearby quivering

quitter, quittor, quit while one's ahead, quiver, quiverful, quivering, quiver leg, qui vive, Quixote, quixotic, quixotism

How to use quivering in a sentence

For some of the men of America’s founding generation, the world of ancient Greece and Rome was a ready quiver, a source of stories and vocabularies that were of use in the present.
Noble virtues, bad history: How Greece and Rome influenced America’s founders|Charles King|November 6, 2020|Washington Post
The soft cry from her quivering lips meets the rhythmic beat of our rattles: the battle cry of her living nightmare.
Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction|Abby Haglage|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ten feet away, Sher scrunched into a quivering ball and began to cry.
Death on Killer Mountain|Amanda Padoan|July 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The emphasis was his: a high quivering shout, a forefinger stabbing upward.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz Is Not The Name Of A Street|Gershom Gorenberg|April 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST

I came home quivering with excitement about my new friends, and about art, which I suddenly thought of as "Art."
Endless Summer: Meg Wolitzer Talks About “The Interestings”|Jane Ciabattari|April 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The woman who took no nonsense from a cabinet of quivering, jelly-kneed men, some of whom loved her, some of whom loathed her.
How Margaret Thatcher Transformed British Politics|Tunku Varadarajan|April 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Her white face looked ethereal in the moonlight, and her bloodless lips were quivering with returning life.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
At the word of command, the dog crouched down, his whole body quivering with excitement.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
The clear and radiant sky was drowned in a quivering radiance of gold, that was like a thing alive and sensitively palpitating.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
"You are very good," she said, her voice quivering with feeling and real gratitude, and as he was departing she called after him.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini