0 past simple and past participle of shiver
1 When people or animals shiver, they shake slightly because they feel cold, ill, or frightened:
Arthur shivered involuntarily as he came out of the building.
I'd hate to swim in that cold sea - it makes me shiver just thinking about .
I shivered, chilled to the bone.
I shivered at the quotation which he made.
Yesterday we shivered before the disclosure of a coal shortage.