0 to shake suddenly with very small movements because of a very unpleasant thought or feeling: --
1 the act of shuddering: --
2 to shake suddenly and briefly, esp. because of an unpleasant thought or feeling: --
I shuddered, remembering the frightening stories I had heard.
3 a sudden and brief shaking movement of the body, esp. because of an unpleasant emotion: --
Surely that small sum cannot send a shudder of dismay through bureaucratic hearts hardened by years of vast expenditure.
The whole clockwork arrangement on the floor came to a shuddering halt when that man ran it into the ground.
I shudder to think that, if war came again, these airliners would give place to monsters of destruction.
One shudders at the thought of the suffering that must go on in rain or snow, or in midsummer heat.
I shudder to think what the plight of the others must be.
For him, its role was 'to portray the secret shudder of mystical powers still more clearly'.
Our psyche and soul shudders at losing control.
Such phraseology always makes historians shudder, as one's instinct is to want to see the original.
