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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Quaking (0.01210 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Quaking.
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. [1913 Webster] She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Quaking \Quak"ing\, a. & n. from Quake, v. [1913 Webster] 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). [1913 Webster]

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