Dictionary Entry
shiver
shiver is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
- 2noun
A thin slice; a shive.
- 3noun
A variety of blue slate.
- 4noun
A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- 5noun
A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- 6noun
A spindle.
- 7transitive verb
To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
- 8intransitive verb
To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
- 9intransitive verb
To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
- 10transitive verb
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
- 11noun
The act of shivering or trembling.
- 12noun
a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- 13noun
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
"a frisson of surprise shot through him"
- 14verb
shake, as from cold
"The children are shivering--turn on the heat!"
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- 15verb
tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
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