Thesaurus: quake

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1. v. i. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
2. 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.
3. v. t. To cause to quake.
4. n. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
5. n. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
6. v. shake with fast, tremulous movements
7. v. shake with seismic vibrations
8. v:10/n:90 n shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity v shake with fast, tremulous movements v shake with seismic vibrations