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Shudder
shudder
(shudders, shuddering, shuddered) 1. If you shudder, you shake with fear, horror, or disgust, or because you are cold. Lloyd had urged her to eat caviar. She had shuddered at the thought... VERB: V prep/adv • Shudder is also a noun. She recoiled with a shudder. N-COUNT: usu sing 2. If something such as a machine or vehicle shudders, it shakes suddenly and violently. The train began to pull out of the station–then suddenly shuddered to a halt... The whole ship shuddered and trembled at the sudden strain. VERB: V prep/adv, V 3. If something sends a shudder or shudders through a group of people, it makes them worried or afraid. The next crisis sent a shudder of fear through the UN community... N-COUNT 4. If you say that you shudder to think what would happen in a particular situation, you mean that you expect it to be so bad that you do not really want to think about it. I shudder to think what would have happened if he hadn’t acted as quickly as he did. PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR wh c darkgreen]feelings
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I. intransitive verb (~ed; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English shoddren; akin to Old High German skutten to shake and perhaps to Lithuanian kuteti to shake up Date: 13th century to tremble convulsively ; shiver, quiver II. noun Date: 1607 an act of ~ing • ~y adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.intr. 1 shiver esp. convulsively from fear, cold, repugnance, etc. 2 feel strong repugnance etc. (shudder to think what might happen). 3 (of a machine etc.) vibrate or quiver. --n. 1 the act or an instance of shuddering. 2 (in pl.; prec. by the) colloq. a state of shuddering. Derivatives shudderingly adv. shuddery adj. Etymology: ME shod(d)er f. MDu. schuderen, MLG schoderen f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. дрожь; содрогание to give smb. the shudders —- бросить кого-либо в дрожь, нагнать страху на кого-либо it gave me the shudders —- (у меня) мороз по коже подирает a shudder passed over me —- я вздрогнул it is not without a shudder that I recall... —- не без содрогания я вспоминаю, как... 2. дрожать; вздрагивать; содрогаться to shudder with disgust —- дрожать от отвращения to shudder at the thought of smth., to shudder to think of smth. —- содрогнуться при мысли о чем-либо ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun дрожь, содрогание 2. v. вздрагивать, содрогаться; I shudder to think of it - я содрогаюсь при (одной) мысли об этом; I shudder at the thought of fire in this building. Syn: see shake ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 to shake uncontrollably for a short time because you are frightened, or cold, or because you think something is very unpleasant + a (He touched Ralph's bare shoulder and Ralph shuddered at the human contact.) 2 if a vehicle or machine shudders, it shakes violently (The train shuddered to a halt.) 3 I shudder to think used to say that you do not want to think about something because it is too unpleasant (I shudder to think what they'll say when they see the mess the house is in.) shudder at phr v to think that something is very bad or unpleasant (Modern doctors shudder at treatments such as bleeding people with leeches.) ~2 n C usually singular a shaking movement (The building gave a sudden shudder.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1200, possibly from M.Du. schuderen "to shudder," or M.L.G. schoderen, both from P.Gmc. *skud-. The noun is from 1607. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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