quake
Other forms: quaking; quaked; quakes
When you quake, you tremble and shiver. A scary sound in a dark basement might make you quake.
To quake is to move rapidly back and forth, so quickly that the movement is almost a vibration. If you've ever felt the floor quake during an actual earthquake, you know the fluttery, shaking kind of movement. A person can quake with fear, and a building can quake during a wind storm. You can also use the word quake as a noun, to describe the feeling itself. The Old English root is cwacian, or "tremble or clatter of teeth."
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shake with fast, tremulous movements
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shake with seismic vibrations
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shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activitysynonyms: earthquake, seism, temblortypes:aftershocka tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquakeforeshocka tremor preceding an earthquaketype of:geological phenomenona natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth
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