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Definition of Shake

Shake obs. p. p. of Shake. 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. Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. 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. To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. A fissure in rock or earth. A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. A shook of staves and headings. The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. Related Definitions: Above, Act, Adverb, Agitate, Agitated, Agitating, Agitation, Alternation, An, And, Another, Apart, As, Barrel, Be, Being, Below, By, Called, Cause, Caused, Crack, Degree, Down, Dried, Earth, Fig, Firmness, Fissure, From, Fruit, Generally, Give, Ground, Head, Hogshead, Impair, In, It, Make, Motion, Move, Music, Next, Nodding, Note, Of, Off, On, One, Or, Other, Out, Principal, Quake, Quaking, Quick, Rapid, Rapidly, Redshank, Remove, Resolution, Result, Rid, Rock, Self, Shake, Shaking, Shiver, Shivering, Shook, So, Stability, Staff, Staves, Taken, The, Throw, Timber, To, Tone, Too, Totter, Tree, Tremble, Trembling, Tremulous, Trill, Vacillating, Vibrating, Vibratory, Violent, Waver, Wavering, Waving, Way, Weaken, While, With

Shake Quotations Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Abraham Lincoln In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mohandas Gandhi Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness. Mason Cooley We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self. Wavy Gravy Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. George W. Bush

Shake Translations shake in Afrikaans is skok shake in Danish is ryste shake in Dutch is schokken shake in Finnish is pudistaa shake in Italian is scuotere shake in Latin is mico, contremo, contremisco, tremo, palpito shake in Spanish is batido

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