0 present participle of quaver
1 If a person's voice quavers, it shakes, usually because of emotion:
They should have addressed the nation in ringing tones, with a united voice, not as so often in quavering accents, contradicting each other most of the time.
Spasmodic dysphonia is caused by strained vocal chord movement, which results in awkward voice problems, such as jerkiness or quavering.
It is a language that emphasizes on the tonic and fifth, with quavering pitch-play, especially pitch-flattening, around the third, the fifth, and sometimes the seventh.
And he was talking to them like that, with his voice quavering and his eyes on fire.
It is an irregular, quavering image of hope, this inscription on the edge of official history (209).
Richard's singing veers from restraint to expressions of yearning, with a quavering timbre.
