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noun

Quake n.

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

An earthquake.

Synonyms: earthquake; tremor; temblor.

verb

Quake v. t. To cause to quake. (Obs.)

Quake v. i. (past & past part. quaked; pres. part. quaking)

To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. "Quaking for dread." "She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize."

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."

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Etymology of 'Quake'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quake" Quotes from Famous Books

... his lesson's sake, Thank God's gentle minstrel there, Who, when storms make others quake, Sings of days that ...

— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester

... had heard a rush upstairs, and words like those of a person exulting, and then a door closed. Once it opened, and he could distinguish the words, in one voice, "And for THAT!" to which another voice replied, in tones that made his heart quake, "Aye, for THAT, sir." And then the same voice went on rapidly to say, "O dog! could you hope"—at which word the door closed again. Once he thought that he heard a scuffle, and he was sure that he heard the sound of feet, as if rushing from one corner of a room to another. But then all ...

— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.

... then if the years had strengthened or weakened his Christian faith. We were racing up hill. He stopped suddenly on the hillside and regarded me with a searching earnestness, a solemnity that made me quake. Then he ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... shaven oppressors Begin to quake and disband! And The Times, that bright Apollo, ...

— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... bide, sure-guarded, when the restless lightnings wake, In the boom of the blotting war-cloud, and the pallid nations quake. So, at the haggard trumpets, instant your soul shall leap, Forthright, accoutred, accepting—alert from the walls of sleep. So at the threat ye shall summon—so at the need ye shall send, Men, not children, or servants, tempered and taught ...

— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith

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