shuddering

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Definition of shuddering

2 senses · 2 parts of speech

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of shudder
    “The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]”
    “They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.”
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verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of shudder
    “The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]”
    “They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.”

noun

  1. An extended or continuous shudder.

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