verb, noun
verb [V]
1 ~ (with sth) (of a person) to shake because you are very frightened or nervous
SYNTREMBLE:
Quaking with fear, Polly slowly opened the door. * They are quaking in their boots at the prospect of tomorrow's game.
2 (of the earth or a building) to move or shake violently:
The ground quaked as the bomb exploded.
noun (informal) = EARTHQUAKE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for quake is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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