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shudder

verb as in shake, quiver

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The structure shudders, groans, and falls in two different directions.

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She must have been alerted by all the sniffling and shuddering.

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“Ancient peas,” he said ominously to his siblings, and they all shuddered in horror.

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“The most dangerous animal in the woods might well prove to be ‘Uncle Freddy,’” she thought with a shudder.

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These revelations bring a shudder, naturally, but also complicate, or rather radically change, our interpretation of Laius’ death.