Usually means: Trembling due to fear, cold.
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  1. shuddering: Merriam-Webster
  2. shuddering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shuddering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shuddering: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shuddering, shuddering: Wordnik
  6. shuddering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shuddering: Wiktionary
  8. shuddering: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. shuddering: Dictionary.com
  10. shuddering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Shuddering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. shuddering: Rhymezone
  13. Shuddering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. shuddering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. shuddering: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shuddering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. shuddering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shuddering: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See shudder as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shuddering)

▸ noun:  An extended or continuous shudder.

Similar:
unsteady, trembling, tremoring, tremulation, shaking, thrill, shimmying, quave, judder, quaking, more...

Opposite:
shivering, trembling

Types:
nervous shuddering, more...

Phrases:
shuddering breath, more...

Adjectives:
involuntary, cold, convulsive, violent, deadly, dangerous, strong, inward, great, sudden, faint

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Similar:
unsteady, trembling, tremoring, tremulation, shaking, thrill, shimmying, quave, judder, quaking, more...

Opposite:
shivering, trembling

Types:
nervous shuddering, more...

Phrases:
shuddering breath, more...

Adjectives:
involuntary, cold, convulsive, violent, deadly, dangerous, strong, inward, great, sudden, faint

Colors:
    charcoal,     midnight blue,     ash gray,     blood red,     deep purple, more...



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