To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
To break into splinters or fragments.
The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way / Wound with his wisdom to his wished stay; / That wandered wondrous far, when he the town / Of sacred Troy had sack'd and shivered down; […]
The act of shivering.
A shiver went up my spine.
A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
Collective noun for a group of sharks.
A surname.
From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).
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