Meaning

A trembling or shaking..

Definitions by Sense

1. A trembling or shaking.
2. An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
3. (figurative) Something devastating, like a strong earthquake.
4. (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
5. (intransitive, figurative) To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.

Example Sentences

We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.

California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.

Well, everybody talks about the California quakes But the first time I ever felt the earth shake Was in Miami, when Amy touched me.

But HS1 was more exposed to the COVID quake than most given its inherent reliance on international travel, which had collapsed, leaving cross-Channel operator Eurostar stacked with millions of debt.

I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.

Dorus threw Pamela behind a tree; where she stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is even ready to seize.

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

Word Forms

• quakes
• quaking
• quaked
• quoke
• quook

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