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TREMBLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shaky motion
Example:
the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
Synonyms:
palpitation; quiver; quivering; shakiness; shaking; trembling; vibration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("trembling" is a kind of...):
motion (a state of change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trembling"):
tremolo ((music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones)
tremor (shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease))
Derivation:
tremble (move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
Example:
trembling hands
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unsteady (subject to change or variation)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb tremble
Context examples:
“Have you indeed no idea?” said Mrs. Weston in a trembling voice.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She tried to speak boldly, but she was still deadly pale and could hardly get her words out for the trembling of her lips.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Once, too, his trembling hands could not hold the bowl, and it fell to the ground and broke.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from inside the planet, as opposed to being caused by forces above the surface, such as wind.
(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)
Clinical signs vary depending on the substance that was abused and may include irritability, trembling and vomiting.
(Abstinence Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," said the little man, in a trembling voice.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I slipped out of the room, unobserved by any eye—for the company were gathered in one mass about the trembling trio just returned—and I closed the door quietly behind me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“By the sweet Virgin! By the blessed Mother of God!” cried the trembling peasant, “I swear to you that in the darkness I have myself lost the path.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There, prostrate upon their faces, lay the little red figures of the four surviving Indians, trembling with fear of us and yet imploring our protection.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
