Pleased: feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth.Ĭold: the sensation produced by low temperatures.Īcroanaesthesia: loss of sensation in the extremities. Restiveness: characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright.Ĭold Sweat: the physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill associated with fear.ĭeliciously: in a very pleasurable manner. Origin quiver 1 (1400-1500 ) Probably from quiver “active, quick ” ((13-19 centuries) ), from an unrecorded Old English cwifer quiver 2 1. Her knees touched his and the tiny contact sent a quiver of anticipation up her spine.An ivory quiver hung upon her left shoulder and in her hand was a bow.He felt not a quiver of fear, not a doubt of his own powers.I felt a quiver of excitement run through me.2 DLO a long case for carrying arrow s Examples from the Corpus quiver quiver quiver 2 noun 1 SHAKE a slight trembling quiver of fear/anxiety/anticipation etc I felt a quiver of excitement run through me. As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry, Biff sat impotently for only a few moments.The children stood there quivering with excitement as I opened the package.Her lips quivered wildly and she gestured behind her at nothing.He quivered, very slightly, all over, as though he were perished with cold.We stand like three old trees in winter, quivering in the gloom.Golden slivers of sunlight seeped through the interstices of the jute wall, and the talon-shaped leave quivered in some secret sign.John's hands were quivering as he put down his papers and started his speech.Her lip quivered, and tears rolled down her cheeks.Down the, moving beyond a curtain of quivering air, she saw the stage, perhaps with letters.You push the spring down and you can feel it quivering.→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpus quiver
quiver with indignation/anger etc I lay there quivering with fear.
Her mouth quivered slightly as she turned away. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English quiver quiv‧er 1 / ˈkwɪvə $ -ər / verb SHAKE to shake slightly because you are cold, or because you feel very afraid, angry, excited etc SYN tremble The child was quivering in her arms.
0 kommentar(er)
