tremble
颤抖,震颤,抖动,颤动
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Definitions
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trem·bled, trem·bling.
- : to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
- : to be troubled with fear or apprehension.
- : to be affected with vibratory motion.
- : to be tremulous, as light or sound: His voice trembled.
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- : the act of trembling.
- : a state or fit of trembling.
- : trembles, Pathology.milk sickness. Veterinary Pathology.a toxic condition of cattle and sheep caused by the eating of white snakeroot and characterized by muscular tremors.
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Examples
The city, the state, the whole land, were ready to rise and tremble before the Pallid Mask.
He began to read, raising his eyebrows with a puzzled, whimsical air, which made me tremble with suppressed anger.
But it was also the kind of determination that made tyrants tremble, even in the closing days of her time as prime minister.
Who is this woman going toe-to-toe with Wintour, when all others appear to tremble, and who excels because of it?
I just tremble when I think about how tremendous this moment is.
She looked both as she permitted her full red mouth to tremble and his arms to take sudden possession of her.
Softly tremble in the delicate blue mist and the azure spirals from his old Virginia clay—the domes of a sea-bathed city.
From time to time I felt my companion's arm tremble convulsively, as if he shivered from head to feet.
At seven o'clock, a horrible din makes you start up in bed and tremble from head to foot.
Aunt Harriet began to tremble, and Sara Lee went over and put her young arms about her.