Definition of "quavered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of quaver. (verb)

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• "Half-way across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest."
• "Halfway across the glade he stopped short and whirled, catlike, facing back the way he had come, as a long-drawn call quavered out across the forest."
• "There was a silence, then an elderly woman quavered, “I am.”"