1. quake - Noun
2. quake - Verb
3. Quake - Proper noun
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.
To cause to quake.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. Rabindranath Tagore
Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake. Geoffrey Chaucer
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. Camille Paglia
The most sensational surprise was the sudden discovery, one day, that my pictures, for the first time in history, had become walls. By means of what strange process had I arrived at such precise images? And why did they make me, their first viewer, quake with emotion? Antoni Tàpies
For one by one did quake the limbs of God. Empedocles
Though all the East did quake to hear Of Alexander's dreadful name, And all the West did likewise fear To hear of Julius Cæsar's fame. Robert Southwell