shivered

verb

past tense of shiver
1
as in shuddered

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2
as in splintered

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shivered
  1. shuddered
  2. splintered
  3. quivered
  4. wracked
  5. shook
  6. destroyed
  7. quaked
  8. split
Verb
  • Conservatives shuddered to think how close the country had come to permanent entangling alliances.
    — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • McDonald’s shares fell nearly 5% Wednesday, their largest percentage drop since April 2025, as investors shuddered at the eye-popping price of improving McDonald’s 46,000 global stores.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of shuddered
Verb
  • The six pieces in Carson’s second collection are clear, sharp, splintered, and luminous.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
  • And in recent years, cartels have increasingly splintered as leaders have been arrested.
    — Steve Fisher Special Correspondent Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of splintered
Verb
  • When her 9-year-old daughter’s hand quivered, a teenage cousin helped guide the clipper over her mother’s scalp.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • When her 9-year-old daughter's hand quivered, a teenage cousin helped guide the clipper over her mother’s scalp.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of quivered
Verb
  • Sanon had wracked up a $46,689 bill at Maxime Boutique hotel in Port-au-Prince for the former soldiers initially assigned to protect him in Haiti.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
  • His moves have led to hopes of eventual stability in a country that was wracked by civil war and the Islamic State insurgency that engulfed northeast and western Iraq for years.
    — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of wracked
Verb
  • Risch initially shook the challenger’s hand, then pulled back and brushed past him.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 27 Oct. 2026
  • But Todd Golden’s squad shook off a sluggish first half, quickly turned a two-point halftime lead into a double-digit advantage and kept the Hatters at bay during an 85-68 win Tuesday night in the O’Connell Center.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of shook
Verb
  • Both the rocket and the camera were destroyed after crashing into the Earth at a speed of about 340 miles per hour.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Cities outside Paris have been hit hard by the unrest, including Limoges where a fire nearly destroyed the 19th-century city hall.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of destroyed
Verb
  • For a full twenty-seven minutes and nineteen seconds, the stadium quaked and thrummed.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • Three decades from my last episode sometimes a faint quiver in my cheek snaps me back to that distant physicality—a child unable to manage her own estate that quaked.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Definition of quaked
Verb
  • The students will have to avoid allowing political divisions that might split their movement.
    — JOVANA GEC, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Early hands-on reviews broadly agree that the FP2 leans toward filmmakers, even though Sigma pitches it as an even split between stills and video.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2026
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