quakeverb [ I ]
uk/kweɪk/us/kweɪk/to shake because you are very frightened or find something very funny, or to feel or show great fear:
Every time I get on a plane, I quake with fear.
Charlie stood outside the head teacher's office, quaking in his boots/shoes (= feeling very frightened).
The play was so funny, we were all quaking with laughter.
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Afraid
- afraid
- be like a deer/rabbit caught in the headlights idiom
- bottle
- bottle out
- cower
- dread
- fear for sb/sth
- horror-struck
- in terror of your life idiom
- intimidated
- panic
- panic-stricken
- panicky
- pants
- shit a brick idiom
- terrified
- terror
- terror-stricken
- unconfident
- worst
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Laughing and smiling
Making short, sudden movements
quakenoun [ C ]
uk/kweɪk/us/kweɪk/informal for earthquake
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Geology: earthquakes & volcanic eruptions
- active
- aftershock
- crater
- earthquake
- epicentre
- extinct
- fault line
- geyser
- lahar
- lava
- magma
- seismic
- seismograph
- seismology
- subduction
- the Richter scale
- tremor
- volcano
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