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Tremor   /trˈɛmər/   Listen
Tremor

noun
1.
An involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear).  Synonym: shudder.
2.
A small earthquake.  Synonyms: earth tremor, microseism.
3.
Shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease).
verb
1.
Shake with seismic vibrations.  Synonym: quake.



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"Tremor" Quotes from Famous Books



... me still where he had laid me during my faint, my face buried in my hands, my soul drowned in the darkest apprehensions. Late in the evening he returned, carrying a candle, and, with a certain irritable tremor, bade me rise and sup. 'Is it possible,' he added, 'that I have been deceived in your courage? A cowardly girl is no fit ...
— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson
... pale when he entered the office; certainly his nerves were in a tremor, for his heart told him that something very portentous was about to befall him. The Earl sat at the table, and in the seat that Sir James Lee usually occupied; Lord George half sat, half leaned in the window-place. ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle
... A tremor of joy went through me as I realized what I had found. Here was positive proof of what I had strongly but not surely hoped for. The Aztec faith truly was still a living faith; and it followed almost ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... light voice, without tremor or uncertainty. Her face was perfectly calm and smiling. Leo Ulford cleared ...
— The Woman With The Fan • Robert Hichens
... longer patrolled by governesses and maid servants, nor hedged in by petty restrictions. Cosmo John had died one hundred years ago, in May—and, by the Rood! this was May! Had he ever been a-fishing. Had the sudden tremor of the rod made his young heart to leap? I heard the ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche


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