shudder

Speech parts

1. shudder - Noun

2. shudder - Verb

Meaning

To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.

The act of shuddering, as with fear.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

thrill quiver shiver tingle tremor shake twitch quake jiggle shaking vibrate jerk chill flutter tremble
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Antonyms

order still attack remain continue stay
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Hypernyms

fear vibration fright quiver tremble quivering

Phrases with the word

make shudder earth shudder

Derivatives

shuddered shuddering

Examples

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Charles Baudelaire

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. Bela Lugosi

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? Edith Wharton

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear. Marina Warner

I shudder at the concept of a world tamed. R. A. Salvatore

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. Emil Cioran

Close letter words and terms

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