What is another word for shivers?

Pronunciation: [ʃˈɪvəz] (IPA)

Shivers, also known as the chills or goosebumps, are a physical response that the body can have to various stimuli. Synonyms for shivers include quivers, tremors, shudders, chattering, and palpitations. Goosebumps refer specifically to the tiny bumps on the skin that occur during shivers. Other synonyms include the heebie-jeebies, creepy-crawlies, and tingles. Shivers can be caused by a variety of things, such as fear, cold temperatures, excitement, or anticipation. Whether you call them shivers, chills, goosebumps or something else, they are a fascinating and sometimes uncomfortable bodily response that can tell us a lot about how we are feeling.

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Usage examples for Shivers

They came from the mountains, with a chilling, hungry howl that brought shivers.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The cold, though only at the freezing point, pierced our snow-pasted furs and brought shivers worse than that of zero's lowest.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
There was the day or two after I fell through the ice and had the shivers.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Shivers

  • I want a kiss to be so believable it give the reader shivers.
    Laurell K. Hamilton
  • I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
    P. D. James
  • Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
    Marion Howard
  • I have an immensity which shivers in the oceans, being, as I am, only a little fountain, small as an eye.
    Juan Antonio Villacañas
  • I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
    P. D. James

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