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# shuddering

«shuddering» in Mova's school dictionary: **shaking hard with fear, cold, or disgust** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (the -ing form of shudder: shudder, shuddered, shuddering)

### meaning for a pupil

Shuddering means shaking hard with fear, cold, or disgust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuddering/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a character trembles in fear or horror, often while speaking or standing still.

### examples

- Wendy whispered, shuddering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuddering/#x1)
- John said, shuddering, "It's beastly stuff." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuddering/#x2)
- Hook stood shuddering, one foot in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuddering/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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