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quavered

verb

past tense of quaver

as in trilled

to sing with the alternation of two musical tones know-it-alls snickered as the opera singer quavered on the high note

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Recent Examples of quavered The tawny owl’s dark release of song quavered from the pine wood. —

Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025

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trilled

Verb

Femme tunes trilled in the background.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
About 40 minutes away, real birds melodiously chirped and trilled outside its sister hotel, Es Figueral Nou, an 18th-century finca and former fig plantation set among vast agricultural fields.

— Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026