What's the difference between shudder and tremble?

Shudder


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
  • (n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
  • (2) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
  • (3) We need only look at Holland, Belgium or Denmark, and shudder.
  • (4) And while some of the 12-member panel still shudder at the memory , four of them – Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, James Clyburn and Rob Portman – got the band back together, with 25 other lawmakers from both parties and both houses.
  • (5) All good things must come to an end and, sure enough, Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was brought to a shuddering halt by Alan Pardew’s pace-suffused counterattacking specialists.
  • (6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (7) I shudder to think what will happen when that glue is no longer there, but we rally round and put our differences aside.
  • (8) Instead he buried them in paper, interring them in a tortuous numbering system he devised himself, or in the case of some detailed anatomical details of women's genitals, folding over the page to conceal them, undoubtedly with a shudder of revulsion.
  • (9) "It's bringing back the worst memories of the Sarkozy era," warned a Socialist teacher in La Rochelle, shuddering at Sarkozy's public breakup with Cecilia .
  • (10) I could feel her breath shuddering through her body.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump supporter sucker-punches black protester at rally We cannot know, and I shudder to think, how deeply these influences have conditioned public consciousness.
  • (12) "It wouldn't have mattered if banks hadn't been gross risk-takers, this way of doing business would still have come to a shuddering halt.
  • (13) The goalkeeper shudders at the memory of his appearance on RTL's Who Wants to be a Millionaire ?
  • (14) Four patients who were injected with 10 mg or more experienced fever, shudder and vague abdominal and articular pain.
  • (15) One side of the sports hall backs on to classrooms, which shudder when balls hit its walls; the other adjoins music rooms.
  • (16) You might shudder at such crassness, but if you're paying a premium for organic vegetables, you may be subconsciously signalling another desirable trait: conscientiousness.
  • (17) On the journey the man begins to convulse, his body shuddering and shaking uncontrollably.
  • (18) I don’t feel too jolly in most shops, so shudder to think how the poor staff feel.
  • (19) No significant difference existed among these three groups of patients with respect to the over-all incidence of carotid shudders or with respect to the incidence of coarse or fine shudders.
  • (20) Beteta's words will not trouble British tourists practising their golf swing or soaking up the sun on Andalucía's Mediterranean beaches, but they must have produced shudders in Brussels – and on the international bond markets that now view Spain as the biggest threat to the euro.

Tremble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.
  • (v. i.) To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.
  • (v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.
  • (n.) An involuntary shaking or quivering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
  • (2) "To be honest, I dream of the Premier League," replied the Lille forward, setting hearts a-trembling across England.
  • (3) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
  • (4) Simulated gait abnormalities involve weakness of 1 or both legs or ataxia and trembling.
  • (5) Sweating, trembling, inability to concentrate, weakness, hunger and blurred vision were the most frequently reported symptoms.
  • (6) Chu, with trembling lips, said that “a 70-year-old like me is unable to lead all the Occupy protestors home unharmed and protect young people from being hit”.
  • (7) Five to 10 min after the drug administration, the camels at both dosages showed lacrimation, salivation, trembling, restlessness, frequent urination and defecation, followed by diarrhea.
  • (8) Therefore, the coat-color remained cream in ee (cream) hamsters showing only trembling.
  • (9) He was eventually thrown out by a lacklustre landlord who finally listened to my trembling 3am calls for action.
  • (10) Panic-related chest pain, dyspnea, trembling, and fear were important factors in the development, pervasiveness, and severity of situational fears and anticipatory anxiety.
  • (11) The force of the blast made the ground tremble in the Chinese border city of Yanji, 130 miles away.
  • (12) The basic features included a brief, involuntary, coarse, irregular, wavering movement or tremble involving arm-hand alone, or arm-hand and leg together.
  • (13) These movements, which were often abnormal, included trembling and asynchronism.
  • (14) Though the route map that Wenger had provided was clear enough, his men held it with trembling hands.
  • (15) When he speaks, his voice trembles: "If Nato hadn't intervened, none of us would be here," he cries.
  • (16) The shiverer mutation consists of a deletion of the 3' end of the myelin basic protein gene which completely prevents production of mature mRNA and protein, and results in severe dysmyelination and a trembling behavior.
  • (17) His agonising efforts to appease his dying father and establish a relationship with his sister, Glory, are so finely grained, so trembling with a sense of life unlived, and without the neat, redemptive ending of the previous novel, that it is a much stronger and more radical piece.
  • (18) On the current track, maybe life does become unbearable in the future, when the last remaining cubic centimetre of public space – a trembling pocket of air perhaps, in a cellar at the Emirates British Library – is finally acquired by a friend of King Charles III.
  • (19) The following clinical signs such as pronounced muscle fasciculation, trembling, grinding teeth, ataxia, lateral recumbency, bloating, regurgitation, hyperesthesia, mydriasis and convulsions were observed.
  • (20) Similarly, the prominent 4- and 8-Hz peaks, found in the smoothed EMG power spectra from trembling muscles, were eliminated if the limb was effectively prevented from trembling.