Usually means: Sudden, violent earth shaking movements.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. quakes: Merriam-Webster
  2. quakes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quakes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Quake's, Quakes, quake's, quakes: Wordnik
  5. quakes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. quakes: Wiktionary
  7. quakes: Dictionary.com
  8. quakes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Quakes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. quakes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quakes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quakes: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. QUAKES: Acronym Finder
  2. quakes: Idioms

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Quake)

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.
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