| 单词 | shake |
| 释义 | Word Frequency shake(ʃeɪk) verbWord forms: shakes, shaking, shook or shaken (ˈʃeɪkən) 1. to move or cause to move up and down or back and forth with short quick movements; vibrate 2. to sway or totter or cause to sway or totter 3. to clasp or grasp (the hand) of (a person) in greeting, agreement, etc he shook John by the hand he shook John's hand they shook and were friends 4. shake hands 5. shake on it 6. to bring or come to a specified condition by or as if by shaking I shook free and ran 7. (transitive) to wave or brandish they shook their swords 8. (transitive; often foll by up) to rouse, stir, or agitate 9. (transitive) to shock, disturb, or upset I was shaken by the news of her death 10. (transitive) to undermine or weaken the crisis shook my faith 11. to mix (dice) by rattling in a cup or the hand before throwing 12. (transitive) Australian archaic, slang to steal 13. (transitive) US and Canadian informal to escape from can you shake that detective? 14. music to perform a trill on (a note) 15. (intransitive) US informal to fare or progress; happen as specified how's it shaking? 16. shake a leg 17. shake in one's shoes 18. shake one's head 19. shake the dust from one's feet noun 20. the act or an instance of shaking 21. a tremor or vibration 22. the shakes 23. informal a very short period of time; jiffy in half a shake 24. a shingle or clapboard made from a short log by splitting it radially 25. a fissure or crack in timber or rock 26. an instance of shaking dice before casting 27. music another word for trill1 (sense 1) 28. a dance, popular in the 1960s, in which the body is shaken convulsively in time to the beat 29. an informal name for earthquake 30. short for milkshake 31. no great shakes Derived forms shakable (ˈshakable) or shakeable (ˈshakeable) adjective Word origin Old English sceacan; related to Old Norse skaka to shake, Old High German untscachōn to be driven |
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