Word Meanings - QUAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: QUAKE

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUAKE)

• Shiver \i Quake
• tremble
• vibrate
• quiver
• shudder
• Tremble
• Shake
• quake
• totter
• shiver
• jar

Related words: (words related to QUAKE)

• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• 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
• 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
• 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; --
• QUAKERISH
  Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• QUAKERESS
  A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• SHUDDER
  To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith. (more info) shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern to shudder, schütteln
• QUIVERED
  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
• SHAKEN
  1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
• QUAKERY
  Quakerism. Hallywell.
• SHAKE
  obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
• TOTTERY
  Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
• TOTTERINGLY
  In a tottering manner.
• SHAKER
  A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby. (more info) 1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms
• TREMBLER
  One who trembles.
• QUIVER
  Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
• SHIVERINGLY
  In a shivering manner.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• 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.
• COWQUAKE
  A genus of plants ; quaking grass.