Word Meanings - SHIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A variety of blue slate. (more info) splinter, slate, OHG. scivere a splinter, Dan. & Sw. skifer a slate. 1. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to

Additional info about word: SHIVER

A variety of blue slate. (more info) splinter, slate, OHG. scivere a splinter, Dan. & Sw. skifer a slate. 1. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." Milton. 2. A thin slice; a shive. "A shiver of their own loaf." Fuller. Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHIVER)

• Break
• Fracture
• rupture
• shatter
• shiver
• destroy
• tame
• curb
• demolish
• tear asunder
• rend
• burst
• sever
• smash
• split
• subdue
• violate
• infringe
• Burst Extravasate
• displode
• explode
• discharge
• disrupt
• break
• Shake
• Agitate
• weaken
• oscillate
• totter
• convulse
• loosen
• tremble
• jar
• quiver
• Shatter
• Split
• dissipate
• derange
• break in pieces
• dismember
• disintegrate
• Tremble
• quake
• shudder
• vibrate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SHIVER)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand

Related words: (words related to SHIVER)

• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• QUAKER
  1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• DISRUPTIVE
  Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.