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1. Shake with fast, tremulous movements
   "His nostrils quivered";
   - quake, palpitate
    
2. Move back and forth very rapidly
   "the candle quivered";
   - flicker, waver, flitter, flutter
    
3. Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
   "the city quivered with music and excitement";
   - pulsate, beat

1. An almost pleasurable sensation of fright
   "a quiver of surprise shot through him";
   - frisson, shiver, chill, shudder, thrill, tingle
    
2. A shaky motion
   "the quiver of his fingers as he lit his pipe";
   - shaking, shakiness, trembling, quivering, vibration, palpitation
    
3. Case for holding arrows
    
4. The act of vibrating
   - vibration, quivering

Derived forms: quivered, quivering, quivers

Type of: case, fear, fearfulness, fright, motility, motion, move, move back and forth, movement, tremble

Encyclopedia: Quiver