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Trembling   /trˈɛmbəlɪŋ/  /trˈɛmblɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Tremble  v. i.  (past & past part. trembled; pres. part. trembling)  
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." "Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke."
2.
To totter; to shake; said of a thing. "The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble."
3.
To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.



adjective
Trembling  adj.  Shaking; tottering; quivering.
Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Trembling" Quotes from Famous Books



... He nearly suffocated with longing to possess the secret and know where the treasure lay, but he dared not ask; and all the time the spectre stood staring at him with unwinking scornful eyes, as if the sight of the cowardly, trembling ...
— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... that grow on the rotten stems. Farther up the bushes are entirely covered with vines and creepers, whose large, thick leaves form a scaly coat of mail under which the half-strangled trees seem to fight in vain for air and freedom. In shallow places stiff bamboos sprout, their long yellow leaves trembling nervously in an imperceptible breeze; again we see trees hung with creepers as if wearing torn flags; and once in a while we catch sight of that most charming of tropical trees, the tree-fern, with its lovely star-shaped crown, like a beautiful, dainty work of art in the midst ...
— Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific • Felix Speiser

... With trembling hands "Crackerjack" tore it open. It was a message of love and forgiveness penned ...
— A Little Book for Christmas • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland, with my hands full of ridiculous little silver shoes and horseshoes, and a Paris hat on my head, and a trembling treble ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... choir, and let the patient pass behind the altar. There she sat down in a chair, and the doctor on a seat opposite; then he first saw, by the light of the chapel window, how greatly changed she was. Her face, generally so pale, was inflamed, her eyes glowing and feverish, all her body involuntarily trembling. The doctor would have spoken a few words of consolation, but she did not attend. "Sir," she said, "do you know that my sentence is an ignominious one? Do you know there is ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE


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