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# shivering

«shivering» in Mova's school dictionary: **shaking a little because you are cold** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (-ing of shiver: shiver, shivers, shivered, shivering); adjective (shivering: a shivering puppy); noun (shivering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Shivering means shaking a little because you are cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#m1)

2) Shivering can also mean shaking because you are scared, excited or ill with a fever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons, shivering is the body's way to make heat: muscles shake quickly to warm you up. In safety, a shivering child needs warm dry clothes, a blanket and shelter; after swimming in cold water, get dry quickly. Strong shivering in cold weather or after falling in water can be a sign of hypothermia, which is dangerous. In stories shivering shows cold or fear. Phrases: «shivering with cold», «shivering with fear», «a shiver down my spine».

### examples

- We were shivering at the bus stop in the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x1)
- The wet puppy was shivering, so we wrapped it in a towel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x2)
- Get dry quickly or you'll start shivering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x3)
- She was shivering with fear in the dark cellar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x4)
- A fever can make you shiver even when the room is warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x5)
- The children came out of the cold sea shivering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x6)
- Shivering helps your body make heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x7)
- The ghost story sent a shiver down my spine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x8)
- “Has that dog stopped shivering yet?” he asked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/#x9)

### note

Spelled with one r and one v: «shiver, shivering». «Shiver» and «shudder» are similar; «shudder» is often a single shake from fear or disgust. Shivering is a warning sign: warm up the person slowly and get help if it is very bad.

### In the corpora

- [Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/17/)
- [The shivering, sunless days!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/14/)
- [Shivering is your muscles making heat to warm you up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/14/)
- [Shivering hard, pale skin, slurred speech and being very sleepy can be signs a person is getting dangerously cold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/14/)
- [Shivering is your muscles working fast to make extra heat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shivering» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shivering/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.