单词 | foreshock |
释义 | foreshock (once / 1688473 pages) n WORD FAMILY foreshock: foreshocks+/shock: foreshock, shockable, shocked, shocker, shocking, shocks/shockable: unshockable/shocker: shockers/shocking: shockingest, shockingly USAGE EXAMPLESA: An earthquake is generally characterized as a foreshock, main shock or aftershock. Seattle Times(Nov 01, 2016) Sometimes a large quake can be linked to a smaller quake that occurred earlier, called a foreshock. New York Times(Apr 17, 2016) The Meteorological Agency classified the quake that set the disaster in motion on Thursday as a “foreshock” of the even larger one Saturday. New York Times(Apr 16, 2016) n a tremor preceding an earthquake Hyper earth tremor, microseism, tremor a small earthquake |
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