shuddery
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English
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[edit]shuddery (comparative more shuddery, superlative most shuddery)
- Characterized by shuddering motions.
- 2007 December 8, Roslyn Sulcas, “Strings, Hip-Hop and Not a Little Randiness”, in New York Times[1]:
- Four women dance together, shuffling their feet, arching over one another's bodies and running across the stage before stopping dead with shuddery little recoils of the chest.
- 2009, Jacqueline Davies, Lost, page 23:
- The baby breathes in sharply and then lets out a long, shuddery sigh. I've been holding her for nearly half an hour and suddenly she feels unbearably heavy.