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Shivering vs Staggering - What's the difference?

shivering | staggering |

As verbs the difference between shivering and staggering

is that shivering is while staggering is .

As nouns the difference between shivering and staggering

is that shivering is the action of shivering while staggering is the motion of one who staggers.

As an adjective staggering is

incredible, overwhelming, amazing.

shivering

English

Verb

(wikipedia shivering) (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of shivering.
  • * 1847 , Fleetwood Churchill, Robert M. Huston, The diseases of females: including those of pregnancy and childbed
  • Generally speaking, the attack does not involve more inconvenience than this; but in some cases there are shiverings and flushings, cough, loss of appetite, and pain in the right side...

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    staggering

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
  • The army suffered a staggering defeat.

    Derived terms

    * staggeringly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of one who staggers.
  • * 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
  • There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings
  • That which staggers something or somebody.
  • * (Ebenezer Erskine)
  • But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings , although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory