MEANING
1. To shake with small, rapid movements.
2. A case or container for carrying arrows.
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Words that belong together
- a hand quivers
- quiver in the light
On the page
Her hand quivered above the switch.
A fine membrane quivered in the current of air.
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Word forms
- Base
- quiver
- Past tense
- quivered
- Past participle
- quivered
- Present participle
- quivering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- quiver
- Present continuous
- am/is/are quivering
- Present perfect
- have/has quivered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been quivering
- Past
- quivered
- Past continuous
- was/were quivering
- Past perfect
- had quivered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been quivering
- Future
- will quiver
- Future continuous
- will be quivering
- Future perfect
- will have quivered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been quivering
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: quiver; quivers; quivered; quivered; quivering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: quivers.
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