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Shaking   /ʃˈeɪkɪŋ/   Listen
Shaking

noun
1.
The act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements.
2.
A shaky motion.  Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, trembling, vibration.


Shake

verb
(past shook; past part. shaken)
1.
Move or cause to move back and forth.  Synonym: agitate.  "My hands were shaking"
2.
Move with or as if with a tremor.  Synonym: didder.
3.
Shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively.  Synonym: judder.
4.
Move back and forth or sideways.  Synonyms: rock, sway.  "The tall building swayed" , "She rocked back and forth on her feet"
5.
Undermine or cause to waver.  "The bad news shook her hopes"
6.
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.  Synonyms: excite, shake up, stimulate, stir.  "The civil war shook the country"
7.
Get rid of.  Synonyms: escape from, shake off, throw off.
8.
Bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking.  "Shake the salt out of the salt shaker"
9.
Shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state.  "She shook her finger at the naughty students" , "The old enemies shook hands" , "Don't shake your fist at me!"



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"Shaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... are we to find him, your ex-shelency? I have only seen him one little time in my life, and where is he now, and what's his name? Alack, alack!' added the Jew, shaking the long ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Volume II • Ivan Turgenev
... intelligent, even artistic looking, shaking his fist at the gallery). "You dare not come down here and say ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... least, are they not safe? At this sanctified spot will not some reverence revive? some devotion rekindle? Will not the fell instruments of destruction fall guiltless from the shaking hands of their contrite pursuers? Will not remorse seize their inmost souls, and vibrate through the hallowed habitation, in one universal cry of, "O men of God! live yet—so forgive—and pray for us!"—Ah, deadly shame! indelible disgrace! not here, not even ...
— Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) • Frances Burney
... Mr Cunningham were shaking hands with George, and congratulating him upon his energy and plucky attempt to keep ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin
... bidding of her warm heart, she gently pressed it. As though the magnetism of love had communicated itself to the sleeper, he sighed heavily, and uttered a groan of half-subdued anguish. His eyelids fluttered; he was apparently shaking off the heaviness of slumber. His lips quivered, and Emily heard them faintly articulate ...
— Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue • Warren T. Ashton


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