From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishquakequake1 /kweɪk/ verb [intransitive] 1 SHAKEto shake or tremble, usually because you are very frightenedquake with fear/fright/anger etc Richmond was quaking with fury.2 → quake in your boots3 HESHAKEif the earth, a building etc quakes, it shakes violently The explosion made the whole house quake.→ See Verb table
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quake• She shivered, remembering how waking to find his face so close to hers had made her insides quake.• The ground quaked as they walked on it.• It left us quaking in our own home.• She pounded the quaking lid with her fists.• A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous, quaking waste.• It used to be that Florence quaked when the bikers came over the hill near the edge of town.quakequake2 noun [countable] HEan earthquakeExamples from the Corpus
quake• A quake in the Tehachapi-Bakersfield area 50 miles north of Los Angeles registers 7.7.• Living in the rift caused by such a foundation quake is his ambition for your life.• A 6.3-magnitude quake in Long Beach, Calif., kills 115 people.• In California's San Fernando Valley, a 6.5-magnitude quake leaves 65 people dead.-March 27,1964.• Such local bodies are especially important because, by the time foreign aid arrives, most quake victims will have died.• The city streets were magic again, like they were when stoplights went dark after the quake.• The fact that there was not more damage or loss of life was likely due to the nature of the quake.• Seismologists said the quake appeared to have been rooted about 30 miles underground, deep enough to prevent catastrophic destruction.Origin quake1 Old English cwacian 