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. 1. 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. Sir P. Sidney. 2. 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. " Over quaking bogs." Macaulay. To cause to quake. [Obs.] Shak. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
9. To cause to quake. [Obs.] Shak.
10. 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