as in shiver
an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold
a quiver ran through the audience when the monster cornered the movie's hero
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as in to shake
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
aspen leaves quivering in the breeze
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Recent Examples of quiver
Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
The acquisition builds out Constellation’s quiver of offerings, adding gas assets and geothermal plants.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Steve Silverman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The song starts out claustrophobic, with Niko Kapetan’s voice hushed and quivering over an acoustic guitar.
—Alex Suskind, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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Noun
The outfit was paired with a black quiver belt and over the knee latex boots.
—Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
The acquisition builds out Constellation’s quiver of offerings, adding gas assets and geothermal plants.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
The Lions have been overwhelmed by defensive injuries that would turn most teams into quivering jelly.
—Steve Silverman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The song starts out claustrophobic, with Niko Kapetan’s voice hushed and quivering over an acoustic guitar.
—Alex Suskind, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quiver
Noun
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Borge Strand-Bergesen is a modest person with a dream to deliver the kind of listening experience that brings a big smile to your face and might send a shiver down your spine or bring a tear to your eye.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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His announcement of a 25% tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico sent a shiver through markets last week.—
Donica Phifer,
Axios,
8 Dec. 2024
Verb
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What’s a deadline without a head-scratcher to shake things up?—
Shayna Goldman,
The Athletic,
6 Mar. 2025
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Among the official White House records housed in the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, in Atlanta, is a photograph of the late president shaking hands with an 80-year-old Black schoolteacher, Septima Poinsette Clark.—
Elaine Weiss,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2025
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From a distance, Macdonald’s own life has the shudder of a dark fairy tale, answered by the quaking in his books.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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And while any step back in funding by the world's richest economy is going to send shudders through the sector, this pullback came at a particularly disastrous time.—
Belinda Luscombe,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The Tesla doesn’t have that collaborative aspect and will shut off if the driver jerks the wheel.—
Robert Ferris,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2025
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There are numerous moments where she is lost in a dream or a memory before suddenly jerking awake, often too clearly delineating the boundaries in a film ostensibly about its main character’s delusions.—
Ryan Swen,
Variety,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Valeria leaves guard duties to Ellen, a grandmother with a constant tremble in her hands from her MS.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2024
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Kaleena knew her fate before it was announced, teary-eyed and emotional as Kish, with a tremble in her voice, asked her and Alisha to pack their knives and go.—
Rachel Bernhard,
Journal Sentinel,
10 Apr. 2024
Verb
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In sumptuously vibrating chords in the first movement of Schubert’s Fantasy, Olafsson’s touch was a little wetter and more muted, Wang’s percussive and as coolly etched as a polygraph.—
Zachary Woolfe,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Even the film’s basic exposition, showing Anna working in Klaus’s household and receiving her fateful instructions from Hansen, is richly suggestive of the turmoil vibrating beneath the orderly domestic surface.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Quiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quiver. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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