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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

... than women, know how to make a moderate use of power. Is not that seen every day, from the prince to the peasant? If I do not make Hickman quake now-and-then, he will endeavour to make me fear. All the animals in the creation are more or less in a state of hostility with each other. The wolf, that runs away from a lion, will devour a lamb the next moment. I remember, that I was once ...

— Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson

... in shocking battle, Both for a certain heifer's sake, And lordship over certain cattle, A frog began to groan and quake. 'But what is this to you?' Inquired another of the croaking crew. 'Why, sister, don't you see, The end of this will be, That one of these big brutes will yield, And then be exiled from the field? ...

— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine

... was the noise of our own guns. At Nieuport I stood only a few hundred yards away from the warships lying off the coast. Each shell which they sent across the dunes was like one of Jove's thunderbolts, and made one's body and soul quake with the agony of its noise. The vibration was so great that it made my skull ache as though it had been hammered. Long afterwards I found myself trembling with those waves of vibrating sounds. Worse still, because sharper and more piercingly ...

— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs

... Mr. Carnegie had left spelling alone we wouldn't have had any spots on the sun, or any San Francisco quake, or ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... moment is that when the half broken-hearted little Catarina looks out on a windy night landscape lit by moonlight: 'The trees are harassed by that tossing motion when they would like to be at rest; the shivering grass makes her quake with sympathetic cold; the willows by the pool, bent low and white under that invisible harshness, seem agitated and helpless like herself.' The italicised sentence represents the high-water mark of George Eliot's prose; that passage alone ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

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