Verb
The old car shuddered to a halt.
The house shuddered as a plane flew overhead. Noun
a shudder ran through him as he stepped outside into the snow
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Verb
In midtown Manhattan, the usual cacophony of traffic grew louder during the quake, as motorists blared their horns on momentarily shuddering streets.—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024 Watkins' aquatic fun comes to a shuddering halt when she’s attacked by a monstrous shark and subsequently killed.—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
Noun
By all accounts — and by the shudders of enormous bombs hitting the ground not far from the evacuation point — the two sides are now locked in heavy fighting over a string of villages just a few miles inside Ukrainian territory.—Jeffrey Gettleman Emile Ducke, New York Times, 11 May 2024 Some have treated the NOR movement with disbelief and shudders — or, as those who work in it well know, compared it to the 1973 movie Soylent Green, set in a future where the deceased are ground up and made into food to compensate for an overpopulated planet.—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shudder
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Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English shoddren; akin to Old High German skutten to shake and perhaps to Lithuanian kutėti to shake up
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