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Word entry · 7 letters

shudder

Best crossword clue

"Shake with fear"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃʌdəː/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ddehrsuStarts with SEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. shake, as from cold

Word origin

From Middle English schoderen, from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewdʰ-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.

Used in a sentence

  • On seeing the spider under his pillow, John shuddered.
  • VVreath'd vp in fatall folds iuſt in his way, / The feare where of doth make him ſhake, & ſhudder, […]
  • What makes me shudder so? / I shudder and I sigh to think / That even Cicero / And many-minded Homer were / Mad as the mist and snow.

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