Shake

[ʃeɪk] or [ʃek]

Definition

(verb.) move with or as if with a tremor; 'his hands shook'.

(verb.) undermine or cause to waver; 'my faith has been shaken'; 'The bad news shook her hopes'.

(verb.) bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking; 'He was shaken from his dreams'; 'shake the salt out of the salt shaker'.

(verb.) shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state; 'shake one's head'; 'She shook her finger at the naughty students'; 'The old enemies shook hands'; 'Don't shake your fist at me!'.

(verb.) move or cause to move back and forth; 'The chemist shook the flask vigorously'; 'My hands were shaking'.

(verb.) get rid of; 'I couldn't shake the car that was following me'.

Typed by Ewing--From WordNet

Definition

(-) obs. p. p. of Shake.

(v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.

(v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.

(v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.

(v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.

(v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.

(n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.

(n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.

(n.) A fissure in rock or earth.

(n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.

(n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.

(n.) A shook of staves and headings.

(n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

Typed by Ellie

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Agitate, convulse, make to tremble or quiver.[2]. Trill, sing with a trill.

v. n. Tremble, quake, quiver, totter, shudder, shiver.

n. [1]. Agitation, concussion, jar, jolt, shaking.[2]. Trill.[3]. Crack (in timber), fissure, cleft.

Editor: Lois

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Agitate, weaken, oscillate, totter, convulse, loosen, tremble, jar, quiver,shiver

ANT:Secure, fix, fasten, strengthen, stabilitate, confirm, stand

Inputed by Cleo

Definition

v.t. to move with quick short motions: to agitate: to make to tremble: to threaten to overthrow: to cause to waver: to give a tremulous note to.—v.i. to be agitated: to tremble: to shiver: to lose firmness:—pa.t. shook (B.) shāked; pa.p. shāk′en —n. a rapid tremulous motion: a trembling or shivering: a concussion: a rent in timber rock &c.: (mus.) a rapid repetition of two notes: (slang) a brief instant.—n. Shake′down a temporary bed named from the original shaking down of straw for this purpose.—adj. Shāk′en weakened disordered.—ns. Shāk′er one of a small communistic religious sect founded in Manchester about the middle of the 18th century so nicknamed from a peculiar dance forming part of their religious service; Shake′-rag (obs.) a ragged fellow; Shāk′erism.—adv. Shāk′ily.—n. Shāk′iness.—adj. Shāk′y in a shaky condition: feeble: (coll.) wavering undecided: of questionable ability solvency or integrity: unsteady: full of cracks or clefts.—Shake down or together to make more compact by shaking; Shake hands to salute by grasping the hand: (with) to bid farewell to; Shake off the dust from one's feet to renounce all intercourse with; Shake the head to move the head from side to side in token of reluctance disapproval &c.; Shake together (coll.) to get friendly with; Shake up to restore to shape by shaking: (Shak.) to upbraid.—Great shakes (coll.) a thing of great account something of value (usually 'No great shakes').

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