quavering
present participle ofquaver
quaver
verb[I]
uk/ˈkweɪ.vər/us/ˈkweɪ.vɚ/If a person'svoicequavers, itshakes, usually because ofemotion:
Hervoicebeganto quaver and Ithoughtshe was going tocry.
Ways of talking
- beg the questionidiom
- blah
- blether
- blither
- coo
- declaim
- declamatory
- gabble
- loose
- mumble
- pipe
- ramble
- rattle on/away
- stage whisper
- talk trashidiom
- throwyourvoiceidiom
- trash
- trill
- word salad
- yak
Examplesofquavering
quavering
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
They should have addressed the nation in ringing tones, with a united voice, not as so often inquaveringaccents, contradicting each other most of the time.
From the
Hansard archive
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Spasmodic dysphonia is caused by strained vocal chord movement, which results in awkward voice problems, such as jerkiness orquavering.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a language that emphasizes on the tonic and fifth, withquaveringpitch-play, especially pitch-flattening, around the third, the fifth, and sometimes the seventh.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.And he was talking to them like that, with his voicequaveringand his eyes on fire.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is an irregular,quaveringimage of hope, this inscription on the edge of official history (209).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Richard's singing veers from restraint to expressions of yearning, with aquaveringtimbre.
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- breadth of coverage
- breadth of experience
- breadth of interest
- breadth of knowledge
- breadth of vision
- breadwinner
- break
- breakable
- break-above-below
- break above/below sth
- breakage
- break a leg
- break-a-leg
- break a/the record
- break-a-the-record
- break away
- breakaway
- break-away
- break-back
- breakbeat
- break bread
- break-bread
- break bulk cargo
- break-bulk-cargo
- break clause