When you quake, you tremble and shiver. A scary sound in a dark basement might make you quake.
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer.
She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.2.
Noun
shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
Verb
shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking"
Verb
shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated"
v. i.
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
v. i.
To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being
solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as,
the earth quakes; the mountains quake.
v. t.
To cause to quake.
n.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a
shudder; a quivering.
Quake
She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.2.
Quake
Quake
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer.
She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.2.
To cause to quake.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Usage Examples
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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Other Usage ExamplesGod has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.