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trembling

4 definitions • 5 examples
1
shaking slightly in a way that you cannot control, for example because you are frightened, angry, or excited, or because of illness:

Examples:

"I was scared," she said in a trembling voice.
He reached out for her with trembling hands.
2
of the ground or an object, shaking slightly:

Examples:

Eyewitnesses to the explosion reported a fireball and trembling ground.
3
an act of shaking slightly in a way that you cannot control, for example because you are frightened, angry, or excited, or because of illness:

Examples:

As she spoke, Jo bent over the book to hide the trembling of her lips.
4
a slight shaking movement of the ground or an object:

Examples:

There came a trembling of the ground and a distant shriek.

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