quake
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English quaken, from Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble, chatter”), from Proto-Germanic *kwakōną (“to shake, quiver, tremble”), itself likely of imitative origin. Related to Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”) (see quitch), Dutch kwakkelen (“to ail, be ailing”), German Quackelei (“chattering”), Danish kvakle (“to bungle”), Latin vexō (“toss, shake violently, jostle, vex”), Irish bogadh (“a move, movement, shift, change”).
Inflected forms:
form: quakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quaked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quoke
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: quoke
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: quook
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: quook
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
Senses:
gloss: A trembling or shaking.
pos: noun
examples: We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.
gloss: An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Something devastating, like a strong earthquake.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: To tremble or shake.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: 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.
If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in / Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
Now could I drink hot blood / And do such bitter business as the bitter day / Would quake to look on.
Who honours not his father, Henry the fifth, that made all France to quake, Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by.
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and carefulness.
Derived words: afterquake
antiquake
aquake
cowquake
crustquake
fleshquake
genderquake
heartquake
icequake
megaquake
mercuryquake
microquake
mindquake
miniquake
mirthquake
quake grass
quake lake
quakeproof
quakesome
quaketail
quakey
quaky
seaquake
skyquake
spacequake
sunquake
superquake
Swift Quake
timequake
toquake
Trumpquake
venusquake
viewquake
waterquake
worldquake
youthquake
quakebreech
quakebuttock
quake in one's boots
quake in one's shoes
Quaker
quaking asp
quaking grass
quaking pudding
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