Dictionary Entry
quake
quake is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
- 2intransitive verb
To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to quake.
- 4noun
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
- 5noun
shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
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- 6verb
shake with seismic vibrations
"The earth was quaking"
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- 7verb
shake with fast, tremulous movements
"His nostrils palpitated"
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