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.
2. verb. 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.
3. verb. Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
4. verb. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
5. verb. 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.
6. intransitive verb. To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
7. noun. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
8. noun. A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
9. noun. A fissure in rock or earth.
10. noun. A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
11. noun. One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
12. noun. A shook of staves and headings.
13. noun. The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
14. noun. causing to move repeatedly from side to side

    Synonyms: wag, waggle

15. noun. a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement

    Synonyms: shiver, tremble

16. noun. grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)

    Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, handshaking

17. noun. a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

    Synonyms: trill

18. noun. frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream

    Synonyms: milkshake

19. noun. building material used as siding or roofing

    Synonyms: shingle

20. verb. move with or as if with a tremor

    "his hands shook"

    Synonyms: didder

21. verb. undermine or cause to waver

    "my faith has been shaken"

    "The bad news shook her hopes"

22. verb. 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"

23. verb. shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state

    "shake one's head"

    "She shook her finger at the naughty students"

24. verb. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

    "These stories shook the community"

    "the civil war shook the country"

    Synonyms: excite, stimulate, stir

25. verb. move back and forth or sideways

    "the ship was rocking"

    "the tall building swayed"

    Synonyms: rock, sway

26. verb. move or cause to move back and forth

    "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"

    "My hands were shaking"

    Synonyms: agitate

27. verb. shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively

    "The old engine was juddering"

    Synonyms: judder

28. verb. get rid of

    "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"

Synonyms

wag, waggle, shiver, tremble, handclasp, handshake, handshaking, trill, milkshake, shingle, didder, excite, stimulate, stir, rock, sway, agitate, judder

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shake:

hakes, hasek

Common word forms

shaker, shakes, shaking, shakeable

Words from these letters

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