Usually means: Sudden, violent shaking of earth.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. quake: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quake: Merriam-Webster
  3. quake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quake: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quake: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quake, Quake, quake: Wordnik
  8. quake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Quake, quake: Wiktionary
  10. quake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quake: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Quake, quake: Dictionary.com
  14. quake (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quake (cereal), Quake (film), Quake (natural phenomenon), Quake (original soundtrack), Quake (series), Quake (video game), Quake, The Quake (film), The Quake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Quake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quake: Rhymezone
  20. quake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. quake: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. quake: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quake (computer game), Quake (video game), quake: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quake: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Quake: CCI Computer
  3. Quake: Game Dictionary
  4. Quake (computer game), Quake (video game), Quake: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. quake: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quake, The Quake: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See quaked as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A trembling or shaking.
▸ noun:  An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Something devastating, like a strong earthquake.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.
▸ noun:  The 99th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Similar:
tremor, temblor, quiver, earthquake, seism, groundshaking, shakeout, upheaval, earthshock, starquake, more...

Opposite:
calm, still, quiet

Types:
earthquake, tremor, seismic wave, aftershock, tsunami, volcano, landslide, mudslide, more...

Phrases:
earth quake, quake lake, quake in boots, quake in shoes, quake (video game), more...

Adjectives:
major, earth, great, big, first, severe, second, larger, strong, next, last

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Similar:
tremor, temblor, quiver, earthquake, seism, groundshaking, shakeout, upheaval, earthshock, starquake, more...

Opposite:
calm, still, quiet

Types:
earthquake, tremor, seismic wave, aftershock, tsunami, volcano, landslide, mudslide, more...

Phrases:
earth quake, quake lake, quake in boots, quake in shoes, quake (video game), quake 1, quake game, quake i, frost quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Quake 4, Quake engine, Quake Champions, Quake II engine, more...

Adjectives:
major, earth, great, big, first, severe, second, larger, strong, next, last

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     dark gray,     charcoal,     taupe, more...



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