shakes
Speech parts
1. shakes - Noun
2. shakes - Verb
Meaning
shakes
plural of shake
(plural only) A pattern of behavior including twitches, tics and spasms typical of withdrawal from addiction; usually following the.
[Recovering video game addicts] also have sleep disorders, the shakes and numbness in their hands. [1]
When researchers either stopped the diet or administered an opioid blocker, the rats showed signs common to drug withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering and the shakes. [2]
(informal) A fit of trembling or shivering.
shakes
third-person singular simple present indicative of shake
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Examples
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Not all that shakes falls.
When a greek shakes your hand, count your fingers after.
The awakening of a giant shakes the world.