shudderingly

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shud·der

 (shŭd′ər)
intr.v. shud·dered, shud·der·ing, shud·ders
1. To shiver convulsively, as from fear or revulsion. See Synonyms at shake.
2. To vibrate; quiver: The airplane shuddered in the turbulence.
n.
1. A convulsive shiver, as from fear or revulsion.
2. A vibration or trembling motion.

[Middle English shodderen, perhaps of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin.]

shud′der·ing·ly adv.
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Adv.1.shudderingly - with a shudder; "shudderingly, she acknowledged to herself that she dared not face what lay before her"
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shudderingly

adv (with fear etc) → schaudernd; (with cold) → zitternd; the rocket climbed shudderingly into the skydie Rakete stieg zitternd zum Himmel auf
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I knew not how this consciousness at last glided away from me; but waking in the morning, I shudderingly remembered it all, and for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in confounding attempts to explain the mystery.
Then I saw her frame convulse, shudderingly, her muscles reacting to her rapidly lowering temperature, and casting prudery to the winds, I threw myself down beside her and took her in my arms, pressing her body close to mine.
"Oh, will somebody separate those cats?" pleaded Stella, shudderingly.
"Ugh--the filthy beasts," Joan gulped shudderingly. "I hate them!
"You must not--you shall not behold this!" said I, shudderingly, to Usher, as I led him, with a gentle violence, from the window to a seat.
Coming into womanhood coincident with the flowering of New England, Julia fled what she shudderingly called the "grim dogmas" of her father's Protestant Episcopal Church and embraced Unitarianism and poetry, producing a volume in 1854, Passion-Flowers, that her husband thought rather too ardent.
He was suddenly, painfully aware of her, shudderingly aroused.
Speaking about Two, director David Underwood said: "This award-winning play by Jim Cartwright, the writer of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, is full of broad humour, pathos and written with a shudderingly moving poetic style.
"The whole proceedings were brought to a halt in such a shudderingly chaotic fashion that it makes a mess of council.
Collins directed the concerto from his basset-clarinet, a gorgeously liquid instrument with a shudderingly persuasive chalumeau register (often in conspiracy with the lower strings), and added piquant flourishes of ornamentation to decorate these well-trodden melodic lines.
When the end came it was fitting, a thin nick off a shudderingly awful Lakshan Sandakan long-hop.
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