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quavering
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective quavering has 1 sense
- quavering(s = adj.all) tremulous - (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a tremulous voice"
THESAURUS
quavering
ague, aspen, blurred, breathy, bumpiness, chattering, choked, choking, chorea, cold shivers, croaking, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, fidgetiness, fidgets, fits and starts, flutter, guttural, harsh, hawking, heaving, hoarse, inarticulate, indistinct, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, joltiness, lisping, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, palpitation, palsied, palsy, panting, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver, quavery, quiver, quivering, quivery, restlessness, shakes, shaking, shaky, shiver, shivering, shivers, shivery, shudder, shuddering, snuffling, spasms, stifled, strangled, succussatory, succussion, succussive, thick, throaty, throb, throbbing, tremble, trembling, trembly, tremor, tremulous, tremulousness, trepidation, trepidity, twangy, twitter, unrest, velar, vibrating, vibration, wobbly
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