tremor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
tremor (plural tremors)
- A shake, quiver, or vibration.
- She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
- A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
- The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.
- An earthquake.
- Did you feel the tremor this morning?
- French: trémulation, tremblement
- German: Zittern
- Italian: tremore
- Portuguese: tremor
- Russian: дрожь
- Spanish: temblor
- French: tremblement de terre, secousse sismique f, trémor
- German: Beben
- Portuguese: tremor
- Russian: сотрясе́ние
- Spanish: terremoto
tremor (tremors, present participle tremoring; past and past participle tremored)
- To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
- 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island (novel), London: Review, Chapter Seventeen, p. 188,
- The ground tremored under their big boots.
- 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island (novel), London: Review, Chapter Seventeen, p. 188,
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