meaning of quake
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc. ; to shudder; to tremble.
2. 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.
3. To cause to quake.
4. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
5. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
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