Usually means: Shaking slightly with nervousness, fear.
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  1. quivering: Merriam-Webster
  2. quivering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quivering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Quivering, quivering: Wordnik
  5. quivering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. quivering: Wiktionary
  7. Quivering, quivering: Dictionary.com
  8. quivering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Quivering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. quivering: Rhymezone
  11. Quivering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. quivering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. quivering: FreeDictionary.org
  14. quivering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. quivering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. quivering: Legal dictionary

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  1. quivering: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quivering)

▸ adjective:  shaking, shivering
▸ noun:  A motion by which something quivers or trembles.

Similar:
trembling, shaky, shivering, tremor, quaking, shaking, vibration, unsteady, palpitation, tremulous, more...

Opposite:
still, motionless

Types:
trembling, shaking, vibrating, quaking, more...

Phrases:
opposite of quivering, quivering voice, crying quivering mass, more...

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    silver,     lavender,     pale blue,     soft pink,     ethereal green, more...



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Similar:
trembling, shaky, shivering, tremor, quaking, shaking, vibration, unsteady, palpitation, tremulous, more...

Opposite:
still, motionless

Types:
trembling, shaking, vibrating, quaking, more...

Phrases:
opposite of quivering, quivering voice, crying quivering mass, more...

Colors:
    silver,     lavender,     pale blue,     soft pink,     ethereal green, more...



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