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QUAVERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quavering mean?
• QUAVERING (adjective)
The adjective QUAVERING has 1 sense:
1. (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
Familiarity information: QUAVERING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
Synonyms:
quavering; tremulous
Context example:
spoke timidly in a tremulous voice
Similar:
unsteady (subject to change or variation)
Context examples
From Wiltshire, friend, said she, in a quavering voice; three days have I been on the road.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was voicing an utter woe, his cry bursting upward in great heart-breaking rushes, dying down into quavering misery, and bursting upward again with a rush upon rush of grief.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Who are you, then? What do you want?” he asked in a quavering voice.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Through the silence of the great forest there came a swishing, whistling sound, mingled with the most dolorous groans, and the voice of a man raised in a high quavering kind of song.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Three, most holy father,” the brother answered in a low and quavering voice.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping broken sobs and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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