shivering
present participle of
shiver
Meaning of shivering in English
(Definition of shivering from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of shivering
shivering
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We begin with "our naked shivering nature," an almost pathetic presence.
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Shivering, and increased thyroid and adrenal activity augment thermogenesis.
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It utilizes the person's own heat production, particularly through shivering, to elevate core temperature.
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The side effects were shown as chills, shivering, paleness, cyanosis or cold extremities in almost all cases.
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However, patient movement, shivering, and use of electrical diathermy can cause interference to the signals.
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The first homeostatic response to a fall in core temperature is to increase metabolic rate, principally by shivering, together with vasoconstriction.
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What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about.
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In those women shivering, rectal temperature was found to be increased as early as one hour after epidural administration.
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Both of us served as subjects in an experiment with acute cold exposure aimed at arousing shivering.
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Suppression of shivering decreases oxygen consumption and improves hemodynamic stability during postoperative rewarming.
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The intra-arterial signal is also less vulnerable to interference and is largely unaffected by patient movement and shivering.
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The trouble with pragmatist understandings is that they return to our own interests, and our own interests-our own naked shivering nature-are exactly what we are trying to obscure.
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I am shivering with cleanness.
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Fatigue, night sweats, fever and shivering, and musculoskeletal symptoms were the most common manifestations.
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Shivering stops, hypertonia develops and coma intervenes.
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