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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Earth sciences quakequake1 /kweɪk/ verb [intransitive] 1 SHAKEto shake or tremble, usually because you are very frightened quake with fear/fright/anger etc Richmond was quaking with fury.2 → quake in your boots 3 HESHAKEif the earth, a building etc quakes, it shakes violently The explosion made the whole house quake.→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpusquake• She shivered, remembering how waking to find his face so close to hers had made her insides quake.• The ground quaked as they walked on it.• It left us quaking in our own home.• She pounded the quaking lid with her fists.• A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous, quaking waste.• It used to be that Florence quaked when the bikers came over the hill near the edge of town.Related topics: Earth sciences quakequake2 noun [countable] HEan earthquake Examples from the Corpusquake• A quake in the Tehachapi-Bakersfield area 50 miles north of Los Angeles registers 7.7.• Living in the rift caused by such a foundation quake is his ambition for your life.• Such local bodies are especially important because, by the time foreign aid arrives, most quake victims will have died.• The city streets were magic again, like they were when stoplights went dark after the quake.• The fact that there was not more damage or loss of life was likely due to the nature of the quake.• Seismologists said the quake appeared to have been rooted about 30 miles underground, deep enough to prevent catastrophic destruction.Origin quake1 Old English cwacian
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Verb table
quake
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they quake
he, she, it quakes
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they quaked
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have quaked
he, she, it has quaked
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had quaked
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will quake
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have quaked
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Continuous Form
Present
I am quaking
he, she, it is quaking
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you, we, they are quaking
Past
I, he, she, it was quaking
you, we, they were quaking
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been quaking
he, she, it has been quaking
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been quaking
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be quaking
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been quaking
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