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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: quake
bergempa, gempa bumi
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quaking
quaking
adj : vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or
cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze;
“a
quaking bog”;
“the quaking child asked for more”;
“quivering leaves of a poplar tree”;
“with shaking
knees”;
“seemed shaky on her feet”;
“sparkling light
from the shivering crystals of the chandelier”;
“trembling hands” [syn:
quivering,
shaking,
shaky,
shivering,
trembling]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Quaking
Quake
\Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quaking.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf.
Quagmire.]
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to
tremble.
“Quaking for dread.” --Chaucer.
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She stood quaking like the partridge on which the
hawk is ready to seize. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. 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.
“ Over quaking
bogs.” --Macaulay.
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Quaking
\Quak"ing\,
a. & n. from
Quake, v.
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Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American species of poplar
(
Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in
the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen.
See
Aspen.
Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water
that it shakes when trodden upon.
Quaking grass. (Bot.)
(a) One of several grasses of the genus
Briza, having
slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which
quake and rattle in the wind.
Briza maxima is the large
quaking grass;
Briza media and
Briza minor are the
smaller kinds.
(b) Rattlesnake grass (
Glyceria Canadensis).
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