shuddering

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Verb

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shuddering

  1. present participle and gerund of shudder
    • 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. [], London: [] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] [], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
      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; []
    • 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo[1]:
      They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.

Noun

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shuddering (plural shudderings)

  1. An extended or continuous shudder.