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

1. intransitive verb. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
2. intransitive 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.
3. transitive verb. To cause to quake.
4. noun. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
5. noun. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity

   Synonyms: earthquake, seism, temblor

6. verb. shake with seismic vibrations

   "The earth was quaking"

   Synonyms: tremor

7. verb. shake with fast, tremulous movements

   "His nostrils palpitated"

   Synonyms: palpitate, quiver

Synonyms

earthquake, seism, temblor, tremor, palpitate, quiver

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in quake:

queak

Common word forms

quaked, quaker, quakes, quaking, quakeful

Words from these letters

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