SHUDDERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shuddering mean? 

• SHUDDERING (adjective)
  The adjective SHUDDERING has 1 sense:

1. shaking convulsively or violently

  Familiarity information: SHUDDERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHUDDERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shaking convulsively or violently

Similar:

unsteady (subject to change or variation)

 Context examples 

I felt as if I was about the commission of a dreadful crime and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow creatures.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Next morning the king came and said: Now you must have learnt what shuddering is?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He heaved a sort of shuddering sigh, and taking me in his arms, carried me downstairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He desired to see no more; and gave me leave to put on my clothes again, for I was shuddering with cold.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Elinor was employed in walking thoughtfully from the fire to the window, from the window to the fire, without knowing that she received warmth from one, or discerning objects through the other; and Marianne, seated at the foot of the bed, with her head leaning against one of its posts, again took up Willoughby's letter, and, after shuddering over every sentence, exclaimed—It is too much!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"Oh, it was frightful!" he added, shuddering.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I remembered, shuddering, the mad enthusiasm that hurried me on to the creation of my hideous enemy, and I called to mind the night in which he first lived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The poor betrothed girl crouched trembling and shuddering behind the cask, for she saw what a terrible fate had been intended for her by the robbers.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Half an hour from now, when I shall again and forever reindue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fearstruck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)