shake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: sheik
homophone: sheikh stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: shakes
form: shaking
form: shook
form: shaked
form: shooketh
form: shaken
form: shook
form: shooken
Etymology: From Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-West Germanic *skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”).
Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift, push, shake”) and schacken (“to shake, shock”), Old Norse skaka (“to shake”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Danish skage (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian скака́ть (skakátʹ, “to jump”). More at shock.
Senses: examples: text: The earthquake shook the building.
text: He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere.
text: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and now seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Meeting Point”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
examples: text: Shaking his head, he kept repeating “No, no, no”.
text: I became alſo a reproch vnto them: when they looked vpon me, they ſhaked their heads.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 109:25, column 1:
glosses: To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
examples: text: to shake fruit down from a tree
text: […]Shake off the golden ſlumber of repoſe;[…]
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: But indeed this Shame was a bold Villain; I could ſcarce ſhake him out of my company; [...]
ref: 1680, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], 5th edition, Edinburgh: […] Iohn Cairns, […], →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
examples: text: Her father’s death shook her terribly.
text: He was shaken by what had happened.
text: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
synonyms: traumatize
glosses: To disturb emotionally; to shock.
examples: text: I can’t shake the feeling that I forgot something.
glosses: To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
examples: text: She shook with grief.
text: The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: shiver
tremble
glosses: To move from side to side.
examples: text: OK, let’s shake on it.
glosses: To shake hands.
raw_tags: as "shake on"
examples: text: She was shaking it on the dance floor.
glosses: To dance.
examples: text: to shake a note in music
glosses: To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
examples: text: The experience shook my religious belief.
text: The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China.
ref: 2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2023, Sinosphere:
glosses: To threaten to overthrow.
glosses: To be agitated; to lose firmness.
Synonyms: word: jiggle
word: quake
word: shag
word: shake
word: tremble
word: vibrate
word: wiggle
Hypernyms: word: move
Hyponyms: word: judder
word: quaver
word: quiver
word: rock
word: palpitate
word: shiver
word: shudder
word: thrill
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: beshake
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: bone-shaking
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: make shit shake
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word: more than one can shake a stick at
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: more than you can shake a stick at
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake a cloth in the wind
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake a leg
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word: shake-a-leg
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake and bake
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake 'n bake
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake a stick at
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake down
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake hands
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake hands with the unemployed
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake in one's boots
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake in one's shoes
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake it
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake it up
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word: shake like a leaf
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word: shaken baby syndrome
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake off
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake off the dust from one's feet
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake one's ass
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake one's elbow
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake one's head
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake on it
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake out
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word: shake over
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shaker
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shake the dust from one's feet
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word: shake the dust from one's sandals
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word: shake the pagoda tree
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word: shake the plum tree
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word: shake together
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word: shake up
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word: shaking rat Kawasaki
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: shook
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: soul-shaking
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word: tree shaking
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word: what's shaking
sense: Terms derived from shake (verb)
word: world-shaking
Related terms: word: spasm
word: wriggle
word: sway