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# shudder

«shudder» in Mova's school dictionary: **to shake suddenly, usually from fear, cold, or disgust** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (shudder, shudders, shuddered, shuddering); noun (a shudder)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To shudder is to shake suddenly, usually from fear, cold, or disgust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shudder/#m1)

2) A shudder is one such shake of the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shudder/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a sign of fear or horror in a story; a character shudders when something frightening or nasty is near or said.

### examples

- Potentilla only shuddered and cried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shudder/#x1)
- The Prince gave a shudder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shudder/#x2)
- I shudder at the thought of spiders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shudder/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [My flesh shuddereth for fear of Thee; and I am afraid of Thy judgments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2285/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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