quake

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1. shake, tremble, shudder; rock, reel, sway, toss, pitch; toss and turn, toss and tumble, pitch and plunge, rock and roll; waver, oscillate, librate, falter; totter, wobble, flounder, stagger; pendulate, tick, tock, tick-tock.

2. quiver, vibrate, quaver; throb, pulsate, palpitate, writhe, squirm, quail; shiver, chill, flutter, flitter, flit, twitch, vellicate.

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3. earthquake, tremor, trembler, Chiefly U.S. temblor, shock; cataclysm, breakup, upheaval, dias-trophism, seismic disturbance.

4. agitation, vibration, oscillation; jolt, jog, jar, jostle, jerk, start, stir, succussion; pulsation, palpitation, beat, pitter-patter, pitapat; twitch, vellication, tic, rictus; paroxysm, orgasm, throe, cramp, convulsion, spasm, fit, seizure, Pathol. ictus; stroke, apoplexy, heart attack, Pathol. coronary thrombosis, Pathol. jactation.

5. quiver, quaver, tremble, shudder; shiver, jitter, twitter, ague, Inf. shakes, St. Vitus dance; fidget, jiggle, jig, flutter, flitter, flap; rock, reel, roll, lurch, welter; toss, tumble, pitch, swing, sway.