(shook )
object / building / person
1 to move or make sb/sth move with short quick movements from side to side or up and down:
[V] The whole house shakes when a train goes past. * [VN] Shake the bottle well before use. * He shook her violently by the shoulders. * [VN-ADJ] She shook her hair loose.
2 [VN+adv./prep.] to move sth in a particular direction by shaking:
She bent down to shake a pebble out of her shoe.
your head
3 [VN] ~ your head to turn your head from side to side as a way of saying 'no' or to show sadness, disapproval, doubt, etc:
She shook her head in disbelief.
hands
4 [VN] ~ sb's hand
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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 shake is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is shake a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, shake is tagged as verb.
Does shake appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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