Dictionary Entry
shake
shake is a 5-letter English word with 28 senses as verb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: obs. p. p. of Shake. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 11 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 12 · Words With Friends 11 · 28 senses
Definitions
- 1
obs. p. p. of Shake.
- 2verb
To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.
- 3verb
Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
- 4verb
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
- 5verb
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.
- 6intransitive verb
To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
- 7noun
The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
- 8noun
A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
- 9noun
A fissure in rock or earth.
- 10noun
A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- 11noun
One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- 12noun
A shook of staves and headings.
- 13noun
The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- 14noun
causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- 15noun
a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- 16noun
grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
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- 17noun
a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
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- 18noun
frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
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- 19noun
building material used as siding or roofing
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- 20verb
move with or as if with a tremor
"his hands shook"
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- 21verb
undermine or cause to waver
"my faith has been shaken"
"The bad news shook her hopes"
- 22verb
bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
"He was shaken from his dreams"
"shake the salt out of the salt shaker"
- 23verb
shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
"shake one's head"
"She shook her finger at the naughty students"
- 24verb
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
"These stories shook the community"
"the civil war shook the country"
- 25verb
move back and forth or sideways
"the ship was rocking"
"the tall building swayed"
- 26verb
move or cause to move back and forth
"The chemist shook the flask vigorously"
"My hands were shaking"
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- 27verb
shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
"The old engine was juddering"
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- 28verb
get rid of
"I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
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