(v. i.) To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to quake.
(n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(2) The government acknowledged it had been overwhelmed by the devastation from the deadliest quake in Nepal in over 80 years.
(3) It is the sort of malevolent onslaught that has caused many hardened media pundits to quake.
(4) Chinese media and bloggers published images of three young children in blue school uniforms lying dead on the pavement – a grim echo of the high casualty rate at poorly constructed schools in Sichuan in 2008, when a bigger quake killed 87,000 people.
(5) In Quaking mice, two intrinsic myelin proteins P1 and P2 were drastically decreased, whereas the major myelin protein P0 was unaffected.
(6) In 2015, an avalanche triggered by a 7.8-magnitude quake killed 19 mountaineers at Everest base camp, prompting the cancellation of all trips .
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cows stranded on ‘island’ after New Zealand earthquake – aerial video Key said the quake was the most significant he could remember feeling in Wellington and that his team was clearing up damage in his own offices.
(8) The carmaker's full-year results highlight how, when the quake struck, Toyota had been on its way to a recovery from the recall fiasco, affecting 14m vehicles worldwide, which had battered its reputation for quality.
(9) A magnitude 7.8 quake centred just across the border in Iran killed at least 35 people in Pakistan last April.
(10) In the Haiti quake, there would have been at least 30 cycles.
(11) International aid has begun to reach the capital, Port-au-Prince, four days after the quake destroyed much of the Haiti's infrastructure, from hospitals and prisons to the presidential palace itself.
(12) Some of these mice exhibited a shaking disorder similar to the previously described mutant mice jimpy or quaking.
(13) On the field, the ‘Quakes are also seeing dramatic changes, with a team known for a cynically direct style deciding to change course.
(14) The quake hit at 2.46pm Japan time (5.45am GMT), about 6 miles below sea level and 78 miles off the east coast.
(15) Although the small basic protein is quantitatively decreased in Quaking mice, the ratio of specific activity of small to large basic protein is similar in control and Quaking animals.
(16) Multiple scientific studies have connected similar quakes – in Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and elsewhere – to the underground injection wells used to dispose of wastewater from fracked oil and gas wells.
(17) By midday on Monday, workers had managed to clear landslides from one lane of the main highway connecting Sikkim with the rest of India , and an initial convoy of 75 paramilitaries had started moving toward Mangan, the village closest to the quake's epicentre, officials said.
(18) In brain, levels of cholesterol, desmosterol and 7-dehydrodesmosterol are reduced in shiverer and quaking, but not in trembler 60-day-old dysmyelinating mutant mice.
(19) Although Nepal celebrated the rescue of two people pulled alive from the wreckage of buildings in the capital, Kathmandu, on Thursday , the sheer extent of the destruction of the 7.8-magnitude quake is becoming clear.
(20) In the last few years we have seen several swarms of earthquakes in various parts of Texas.” The Irving swarm started late last autumn, and Bellini said the small quakes were likely to continue for some time.