Definition of "aquiver" []

• Marked by quivering: The children were aquiver with anticipation before the circus parade. (adjective)

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• "He was aquiver with the idea that he had glimpsed an animating force—“the secret of life.”"
• "A Vesuvius of spittle and sweat, with lips aquiver and eyes bugged-out, Fleck's devo-esque performance provides him with a sweat-lodge purge and us with a fascinating look at faulty-idol worship that pre-dates, by a couple of decades, Michael Jackson."
• "When I finally managed to scramble down, my legs were all aquiver, and my palms were studded with splinters."