as in earthquake
a shaking of the earth
the quake registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, causing widespread damage
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as in to shake
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
the horror film was so scary it left us quaking with fear for hours afterwards
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Recent Examples of quake
Stephanie Elam, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
And Ghost had two women in the business making men quake: Noma and day-one baddie Monet, played by Mary J. Blige.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
The foundations of societies are quaking at home, even as the international order threatens to splinter.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
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Noun
Nothing has compared to that quake since then, and in that time, the population of Los Angeles County has grown from around 9 million to more than 10 million people.
—Stephanie Elam, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
And Ghost had two women in the business making men quake: Noma and day-one baddie Monet, played by Mary J. Blige.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
Verb
Morgan gazed around at the quaking cottonwood and sycamore leaves blocking out the sun there in the Chiricahuas, the tall Sky Island range in far southeastern Arizona whose year-round stream with picturesque cascades attracts migrating trogons and, in turn, trogon watchers each year.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
The foundations of societies are quaking at home, even as the international order threatens to splinter.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quake
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May’s eruption persisted through late June, and December’s eruption began on the Reykjanes Peninsula after weeks of thousands of earthquakes.Ty Roush, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Puerto Rico was then hit by devastating natural disasters, including Hurricane Maria in 2017 and a series of earthquakes in 2020, in addition to the pandemic.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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When God appeared to Moses on the mountain to send him to powerful and evil Pharoah to set God’s people free, Moses shook with fear.Walt Shelton, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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The country is shaking off its communist funk, much like its neighbors Romania and Bulgaria.Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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First, Earth's gravitational pull is expected to trigger tremors across the asteroid beginning about an hour before its closest approach.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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This is why there are actually some tremors in the Treasury market itself right now.MoneyShow, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Apparently, a majority of people under 40 don’t bother separating out their darks and lights, and your Southern mother is shuddering.Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
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But this year, polls showed a trend that would have made my mother and aunt shudder.Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
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Your limbs, or even your entire upper body, may jerk or thrash in the process.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Yanking a zipper shut is more likely to break teeth or jerk the slider off the track.Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
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Even before stepping into the White House again, Trump’s plans have the Federal Reserve trembling.Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
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At a rally in North Carolina last week, Trump mentioned Obama getting back on the trail and made his voice tremble in fake terror before dismissing him.Alex Thompson, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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By pairing two drivers to vibrate in opposite directions, the technology allows for bigger sound with fewer distortions.Brian Westover, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Rather, Danek’s device is a vibrating mesh nebulizer, which uses a circular disc that moves 150,000 times per second to wick pharmaceutical-grade nicotine liquid into an inhalable vapor.Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Just as the clock struck midnight on October 31, wrapping up another Halloween season, the undisputed queen of Christmas herself, Mariah Carey, struck one last terrifying blow into the hearts of her quivering subjects.Michael Savio, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Some remind me of Piranesi’s imaginary prisons with their multilevel interiors diagonally slashed by staircases and shafts of sunlight, their ambiguous atmosphere quivering with both horror and exhilaration.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Quake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quake. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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