quivering
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.
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.
Origin of quivering
1Other words from quivering
- quiv·er·ing·ly, adverb
- un·quiv·er·ing, adjective
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How to use quivering in a sentence
She looked into the pathetic quiveringly childish, old face bent over her.
The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah PrichardHis voice sounded timidly and quiveringly at first; but as the conversation proceeded, it became steady and firm.
Byron | Richard EdgcumbeHer beauty—that of a shy, wild, quiveringly sensitive thing—seemed nothing to her.
Sons and Lovers | David Herbert LawrenceThey are keen, intent, strained, quiveringly eager all with a tight clutch on a deadly rifle.
Tales of lonely trails | Zane GreyIt is forever gliding, gleaming, melting; crystallizing for an instant in some savory phrase, then moving quiveringly onward.
Musical Portraits | Paul Rosenfeld
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