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Webster 1913 Edition
Quake
Quake
(kwāk)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quaked
(kwākt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quaking
.] 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;
“ Over quaking bogs.” as, the earth
quakes
; the mountains quake
. Macaulay.
Quake
,Verb.
T.
To cause to quake.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Quake
(kwāk)
, Noun.
1.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quake
QUAKE
, v.i.1.
To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold. Heb. 12.2.
To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. Neh. 1.3.
To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as the quaking mud.QUAKE
,Verb.
T.
QUAKE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
quake
quake
English
Noun
quake (plural quakes)
- A trembling or shaking.
- We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.
- An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
- California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.
Translations
earthquake — see earthquake
Verb
quake (third-person singular simple present quakes, present participle quaking, simple past and past participle quaked or (archaic) quoke or (obsolete) quook)
- (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
- I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to tremble or shake.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations
tremble or shake
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