Synonyms of the word quake


QUAKEAGITATE - EARTHQUAKE - PALPITATE - QUIVER - SEISM - SHAKE - TEMBLOR - TREMBLE - TREMOR

quake

  • n. A trembling or shaking.
  • n. An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
  • v. (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to tremble or shake.

agitate

  • v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
  • v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
  • v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
  • v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

earthquake

  • n. A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
  • n. (planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial…

palpitate

  • v. (intransitive) To beat strongly or rapidly; said especially of the heart.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to beat strongly or rapidly.
  • v. (intransitive) To shake tremulously.

quiver

  • n. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or…
  • n. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
  • n. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
  • n. (mathematics) A multidigraph.
  • adj. (archaic) Nimble, active.
  • v. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to…

seism

  • n. A shaking of the Earth's surface; an earthquake or tremor.

shake

  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  • v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
  • v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
  • v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
  • v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
  • v. (intransitive) To dance.
  • v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  • n. The act of shaking something.
  • n. A milkshake.
  • n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  • n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • n. (building material) A thin shingle.
  • n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  • n. A fissure in rock or earth.
  • n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
  • n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
  • n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
  • n. A shook of staves and headings.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

temblor

  • n. (chiefly US) An earthquake.

tremble

  • v. (intransitive) To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
  • n. A shake, quiver, or vibration.

tremor

  • n. A shake, quiver, or vibration.
  • n. An earthquake.
  • v. To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.

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