'Quaking' definitions:
Definition of 'Quaking'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Quaking'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'quaking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agitation,
- ague,
- aquiver,
- aspen,
- bumpiness,
- chattering,
- chills of fear,
- chorea,
- cold creeps,
- cold shivers,
- cold sweat,
- creeps,
- didder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dithers,
- fear and trembling,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- fits and starts,
- flutter,
- goose bumps,
- gooseflesh,
- heartquake,
- heaving,
- horripilation,
- inquietude,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jerkiness,
- jimjams,
- joltiness,
- nervousness,
- palpitation,
- palsied,
- palsy,
- panting,
- perturbation,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- quaver,
- quavering,
- quavery,
- quiver,
- quiver of terror,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- restlessness,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shiver,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shivery,
- shudder,
- shuddering,
- spasms,
- succussatory,
- succussion,
- succussive,
- sweat,
- thrill of fear,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- tremble,
- trembling,
- trembly,
- tremor,
- tremulant,
- tremulous,
- tremulousness,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- twitter,
- uneasiness,
- unrest,
- vibrating,
- vibration,
- wobbly