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shak·ing

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shakingnoun
the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitationnoun
a shaky motion
"the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"

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shakingnoun
A movement that shakes.

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shaking
Shaking refers to the act of moving or causing to move up and down or back and forth with quick, forceful, often trembling movements. It can be caused by excitement, fear, cold, or physical exertion. It can also describe the action of mixing or blending something by moving it rapidly or forcefully.

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Shaking
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- Agitation
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British National Corpus

Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Shaking' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4842

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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Shaking in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Shaking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Shaking in a Sentence

Tim McGraw:
Basically, I am an unsure, self-conscious, shy person. That is how I started — even when I was in college —before I would get on stage, I would start drinking. I would start drinking to stop shaking.
Claudia Whitten:
This one really got me. You could feel it in your feet. My whole body was shaking.
Witness Guy Martin:
It was a heart-shaking, ribcage-shaking noise, the most terrifying thing is that crush of people.
Michael Stratton:
She described that the building was shaking and then…the phone went dead.
Leonid Vasilenko:
The walls were shaking, the window frames were shaking, paint started to crumble off the house, i hid in the basement. What else can you do? I took the dog and the cat. In the basement you could hear the earth tremble.

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^ Webster Dictionary
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^ Usage in printed sources
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Translations for Shaking

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κλονισμόςGreek
tremblementFrench
goncanganIndonesian
טלטולHebrew
揺れJapanese
tremulique quassaLatin
schuddenDutch
tremendoPortuguese
sallamaTurkish
rung chuyểnVietnamese

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