English - English (Wordnet) dictionary
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Adjective
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
- the quaking child asked for more
- quivering leaves of a poplar tree
- sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier
Noun
- a shaky motion
- the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe