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Definition of Quake

1. Verb. Shake with fast, tremulous movements. "His nostrils palpitated"

2. Noun. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity.

3. Verb. Shake with seismic vibrations. "The earth was quaking"

Definition of Quake

1. v. i. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.

2. v. t. To cause to quake.

3. n. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

Definition of Quake

1. Noun. A trembling or shaking. ¹

2. Noun. An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force. ¹

3. Verb. To tremble or shake. ¹

4. Verb. To tremble or shake with fear. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quake

1. to shake or vibrate [v QUAKED, QUAKING, QUAKES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quake

quailing quailings quails quaily quainter quaintest quaintish quaintly quaintness quaintnesses

quaintrelle quair quairs quais quake (current term) quake in one's boots quake lake quake lakes quaked quakeproof

quaker quakerbird quakerbirds quakeress quakes quaketail quaketails

Literary usage of Quake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Earthquakes in the Light of the New Seismology by Clarence Edward Dutton (1904)
"CHAPTER IV DISLOCATION OR TECTONIC quakeS Chilian Dislocations and Associated Earthquakes—Similar Phenomenon in Cook's Straits—The Sonora quake of May 3, ..."

2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"Which, if but touched, will such music make, They-ll make a cripple dance, a giant quake. Those riddles that lie couch'd within thy breast, Freely propound, ..."

3. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1838)
"... if but touched, will such music make, They'll make a cripple dance, a giant quake. Those riddles that lie couch'd within thy breast, Freely propound, ..."

4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"To quake ; an old word, of Chaucer's time, given as characteristic to Moth, the antiquary. And for some signes, in case bv crosse ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"quake of large amounts of the quicksand underlying the clay, which, when saturated with water, flows almost as readily as water alone. ..."

6. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"... and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. ..."

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