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I shudder to think

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I shudder to think

It is too worrying or unpleasant for me to think about something that might happen or might have happened. I shudder to think what my boss will say when I tell him I lost our biggest client. I shudder to think of shopping on Black Friday, when every store is absolutely crawling with consumers. I shudder to think of the lonely life I would have had if I'd never met my wife.
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I shudder/dread to ˈthink (how, what, etc....)

(informal, often humorous) I am afraid to think or ask myself about something, because the answer might be terrible or unpleasant: I shudder to think when he last had a bath.‘How much more work is there?’ ‘I dread to think!’
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THE Barmy Army enjoyed themselves as usual but England's second-day charge came to a shuddering halt before lunch on day three.
When males did move to where no barrier separated them from a female, displays were more muted, with significantly less body shuddering, long calling, and decoration flinging, say the researchers.
On its screen appeared an image of a jackhammer's revolving shaft, thundering and shuddering as it sank into a concrete floor; hands, straining to hold the drill, appeared in close-up.
But Leo Fortune-West had put the visitors ahead in this stormy Boxing Day showdown, which saw six men booked and City sub Gavin Gordon lucky not to see red for a shuddering 60th-minute challenge on Jon Beswetherick.
Like a long singing from the Haftorah, the 63-minute-plus "Kaddish" only explodes at the end, shuddering toward a dissolution that, here, is the only way to wholeness.
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Beyond that, the work seems to understand hearing as something that the body undergoes or performs in a forcefully physical way, an involuntary incorporation and expulsion, a vibration or shuddering of organs at some autonomic level below conscious sensation: a "visceral hearing," as the title of another work here has it.
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