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Word Meanings - TREMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --

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1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing. The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble. Milton. 3. To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.

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  • QUAVERER
    One who quavers; a warbler.
  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • SHIVER-SPAR
    A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
  • BLENCH
    deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
  • QUAKERLIKE
    Like a Quaker.
  • SHRINKINGLY
    In a shrinking manner.
  • CROUCHED
    Marked with the sign of the cross. Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.
  • QUAKER
    1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was
  • FLINCHER
    One who flinches or fails.
  • TOTTER
    1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
  • VIBRATE
    brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with
  • QUAIL
    pain, G. qual torment, OHG. quelan to suffer torment, Lith. gelti to 1. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade. Spenser. 2. To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power
  • TREMBLE
    1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
  • SHRINKING
    from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
  • QUAKERISH
    Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
  • LOOSEN
    Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
  • QUAKERESS
    A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
  • FLINCH
    To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink;
  • SHAKESPEAREAN
    Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
  • QUAVER
    be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Sir I. Newton. 2. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill
  • DISSHIVER
    To shiver or break in pieces.
  • WIND-SHAKEN
    Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • SEA QUAIL
    The turnstone.
  • SQUAIL
    To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. Southey.
  • ICEQUAKE
    The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
  • TITTER-TOTTER
    See TEETER
  • OVERSHAKE
    To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.

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