knee-trembling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more knee-trembling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most knee-trembling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Filled with strong emotion
pos: adj
examples: A terrible, knee-trembling wash of terror ran down his spine as he lifted the gun and pressed its cold metal to his chest.
An example: say Lyndon Baines Johnson had gotten wind that he was being trashed by some Capitol Hill minnow, chances are a single phone call from the Oval Office would have been enough to induce a knee-trembling silence.
One ship's captain remembered Blackbeard as 'a tall, spare man' - an unembroidered eye-witness description that supports many knee-trembling references to a giant of a man, a devil in disguise.
Her knee-trembling, heart-pounding fear of thunderstorms was no match for her fascination with the light show offered by the sky.
gloss: Filled with strong emotion
pos: adj
examples: "I just want to look at you," he said, his blatant stare filling her with knee-trembling excitement.
The first said Clare Philips and Magpie, the second, to my knee-trembling delight, said Adam Bray and Custar and the third one we came to said Paula Wilkie and Jazz, so we went in.
gloss: Filled with strong emotion
pos: adj
examples: Hearing the familiar voice, I felt a sudden rush of stomach-empty, knee-trembling relief.
Knee-trembling exhaustion. With each step he'd felt like he was fighting gravity just to stay upright and he'd developed a niggling pain in his lower back, the first pain he had experienced in all his very long years.
The precursor to advancing across unknown ground was knee-trembling agitation: this may be for the last time.
gloss: Causing strong emotion; thrilling.
pos: adj
examples: The putting surface, however, has three levels and it can offer a knee-trembling experience where the danger of a three-putt is acute.
Where, the purists cry, are the heart-racing climbs and knee-trembling descents for which the Dolomites is justly famed?
gloss: Causing strong emotion; thrilling.
pos: adj
examples: Standing near the soloists during a finale was a knee-trembling experience.
Things like the consciousness-expanding, life-altering, knee-trembling mind and music of John Winston Ono Lennon.
Marc flashed me one of his knee-trembling smiles and a minute later we pulled up outside a quaint little pub.
It was one thing to accept Axel's friendship, even a friendship with some knee-trembling benefits.
gloss: Causing strong emotion; thrilling.
pos: adj
examples: If the trust's assets grow by 5 per cent each year, the redemption yield for capital shareholders will be a knee-trembling 75.9 per cent a year.
Not only is it now acceptable to be curious — and this book is largely about how that came to be the case — but it is easier than ever, because of the knee-trembling quantity of information we have at our fingertips.
A vast foyer leads to a pool area of knee-trembling tranquillity, an oasis of polished tiles and palm trees arranged in a swaying phalanx around an elegant infinity pool.
gloss: Involving a knee-trembler.
pos: adj
examples: That is definitely better than having them all walking the streets, dropping litter, binge-drinking in pubs, defecating in alleyways, having knee-trembling encounters in skips that frequently result in pregnancy, and so on.
Suggestions of a knee-trembling encounter on a snooker table in Bird's gentlemen's club lend the story a Palmerstonesque flavour – legend has it that the Victorian prime minister and old rascal died while potting the balls on the green baize with his maid.
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