Usually means: Involuntary trembling from fear, cold.
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  1. shudder: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shudder, shudder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shudder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shudder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shudder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shudder, shudder: Wordnik
  7. shudder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shudder: Wiktionary
  9. shudder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shudder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shudder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shudder: Dictionary.com
  13. shudder (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shudder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shudder (album), Shudder (streaming service), Shudder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shudder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shudder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shudder: Rhymezone
  19. shudder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shudder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. shudder: Free Dictionary
  22. shudder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shudder: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. shudder: Encyclopedia

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  1. shudder: Idioms

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  1. Shudder: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
verb:  (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.
noun:  A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
noun:  A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

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