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Shaking   /ʃˈeɪkɪŋ/   Listen
Shaking

noun
1.
The act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements.
2.
A shaky motion.  Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, trembling, vibration.


Shake

verb
(past shook; past part. shaken)
1.
Move or cause to move back and forth.  Synonym: agitate.  "My hands were shaking"
2.
Move with or as if with a tremor.  Synonym: didder.
3.
Shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively.  Synonym: judder.
4.
Move back and forth or sideways.  Synonyms: rock, sway.  "The tall building swayed" , "She rocked back and forth on her feet"
5.
Undermine or cause to waver.  "The bad news shook her hopes"
6.
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.  Synonyms: excite, shake up, stimulate, stir.  "The civil war shook the country"
7.
Get rid of.  Synonyms: escape from, shake off, throw off.
8.
Bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking.  "Shake the salt out of the salt shaker"
9.
Shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state.  "She shook her finger at the naughty students" , "The old enemies shook hands" , "Don't shake your fist at me!"



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"Shaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... this mighty host set forth upon its march an earthquake shook the city. The inhabitants, awakened by the shaking of the walls and rocking of the towers, fled to the courts and squares, fearing to be overwhelmed by the ruins of their dwellings. The earthquake was most violent in the quarter of the royal residence, the site of the ancient palace of the Moorish kings. Many looked upon this ...
— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving
... a drink?" She turned to the negro:"Go to the spring-house and bring some water."The lad moved away, smiling to himself and shaking his head. ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... idle," said Dan, shaking his head as gravely as Gran'ther Wattles himself. "Busy thyself with the clams, and Satan will have less chance at thy idle hands, and thy idle ...
— The Puritan Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... slightest pretence to personal prowess in the narrative. Our judgment is always too much at the mercy of our likes and dislikes. He did indeed mention himself, but only to say that once in the street of a village he saw the horse at some distance with a child in his teeth shaking him like a terrier with a rat. He ran, he said, but was too far off. Ere he was half-way, the horse's groom, who was the only man with any power over the brute, had come up and secured him—though too late ...
— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald
... vaunting Treason caught, And Fear's pale minions, wrapped in sorrow's pall. Great Freedom dead! In God-like power, 'Tis Freedom rules e'en this dread hour, And guides the tempest 'neath whose blows we fall. Yea! War and Anarchy Discord and Slavery, And drunken Death, and all these tears Shaking our hearts with unaccustomed fears— E'en these are Freedom, waiting to arise In glad eternal triumph from ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


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