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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trembling |
| Synonyms: | quavering, tremorous, tremulous |
| Antonyms: | steady |
| Main Entry: | shake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | quiver, tremble |
| Synonyms: | agitate, brandish, bump, chatter, churn, commove, concuss, convulse, discompose, disquiet, disturb, dither, dodder, flap, flicker, flit, flitter, flourish, fluctuate, flutter, jar, jerk, jog, joggle, jolt, jounce, move, oscillate, palpitate, perturb, quail, quake, quaver, rattle, reel, rock, roil, ruffle, set in motion, shimmer, shimmy, shiver, shudder, stagger, stir up, succuss, sway, swing, totter, tremor, twitter, upset, vibrate, waggle, water, wave, whip, wobble |
| Main Entry: | shake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset deeply |
| Synonyms: | appall, bother, consternate, daunt, discompose, dismay, distress, disturb, frighten, horrify, impair, intimidate, jar, knock props out, make waves, move, rattle, throw, throw a curve, undermine, unnerve, unsettle, unstring, upset, weaken, worry |
| Antonyms: | calm, placate, soothe |
| Main Entry: | anxious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worried, tense |
| Synonyms: | afraid, aghast, antsy*, apprehensive, basket case, bugged, butterflies, careful, choked, clutched, concerned, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, dreading, fearful, fidgety, fretful, hacked, hyper, in a state, in a tizzy, in suspense, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, overwrought, restless, scared, shaking, shaky, shivery, shook up, shot to pieces, solicitous, spooked, strung out, sweating bullets, taut, troubled, uneasy, unglued, unquiet, uptight*, watchful, wired, worried sick, wreck* |
| Antonyms: | assured, calm, content, cool, happy, indifferent, peaceful, tranqil, unconcerned, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | convulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disturbance |
| Synonyms: | agitation, cataclysm, clamor, commotion, disaster, ferment, furor, outcry, quaking, rocking, seism, shaking, shock, tottering, trembling, tumult, turbulence, upheaval, upturn |
| Antonyms: | harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | decrepit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deteriorated, debilitated, especially as a result of age |
| Synonyms: | aged, anile, antiquated, battered, bedraggled, broken-down, creaky, crippled, dilapidated, doddering, effete, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, haggard, incapacitated, infirm, insubstantial, old, quavering, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, senile, shabby, shaking, superannuated, tacky, threadbare, tired, tottering, tumble-down, unsound, used, wasted, weak, weakly, weather-beaten, worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | fit, healthy, young |
| Main Entry: | jerky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled |
| Synonyms: | bouncy, bumpy, convulsive, fitful, jarring, jolting, lurching, paroxysmal, rough, shaking, shaky, spasmodic, tremulous, twitching, twitchy, uncontrollable |
| Antonyms: | fluid, smooth |
| Main Entry: | palsied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crippled |
| Synonyms: | arthritic, atonic, debilitated, disabled, diseased, helpless, neurasthenic, paralytic, paralyzed, rheumatic, sclerotic, shaking, shaky, sick, spastic, trembling, tremorous, weak |
| Antonyms: | healthy, steady, walking |
| Main Entry: | shaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trembling |
| Synonyms: | all aquiver, aquake, aquiver, ashake, faltering, fluctuant, infirm, insecure, jellylike, jerry-built, jittery, nervous, not set, precarious, quaking, quivery, rattletrap, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaking, tottering, tottery, tremorous, tremulous, tumbledown, unfirm, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, wavering, weak, wobbly, yielding |
| Antonyms: | firm, steady, unshaky, unwavering |
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