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quake
English
Etymology
From Middle English quaken, from Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble, chatter”), from Proto-Germanic *kwak?n? (“to shake, quiver, tremble”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?og- (“to shake, swing”), related to Old English cwe??an (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”) (see quitch), Dutch kwakkelen (“to ail, be ailing”), German Quackelei (“chattering”), Danish kvakle (“to bungle”), Latin v?x? (“toss, shake violently, jostle, vex”), Irish bogadh (“a move, movement, shift, change”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwe?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
Noun
quake (plural quakes)
- A trembling or shaking.
- We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.
- An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
- California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.
Translations
Verb
quake (third-person singular simple present quakes, present participle quaking, simple past and past participle quaked or (archaic) quoke or (obsolete) quook)
- (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
- 1575-86, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- Dorus threw Pamela behind a tree; where she stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is even ready to seize.
- 1575-86, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- 1598-99, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, Scene I
- If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in / Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
- 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene II
- Now could I drink hot blood / And do such bitter business as the bitter day / Would quake to look on.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, Act IV, Scene VIII
- Who honours not his father, Henry the fifth, that made all France to quake, Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by.
- Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and carefulness.
Derived terms
- quakebreech
- quakebuttock
- Quaker
Translations
German
Pronunciation
Verb
quake
- inflection of quaken:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Middle English
Verb
quake
- Alternative form of quaken
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writhe
English
Etymology
From Middle English writhen, from Old English wr?þan, from Proto-West Germanic *wr?þan, from Proto-Germanic *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist, turn”) (compare Old High German r?dan (“to wind, turn”), Old Norse ríða (“to wind”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist, writhe”). Compare Lithuanian ri?sti (“to unbend, wind, roll”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?th, IPA(key): /?a?ð/
- Rhymes: -a?ð
Verb
writhe (third-person singular simple present writhes, present participle writhing, simple past writhed or (archaic) wrothe, past participle writhed or (archaic) writhen)
- (transitive) To twist, to wring (something).
- (transitive) To contort (a part of the body).
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good.
- She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood.
- They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years,
- Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
- Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
- The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- (intransitive) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.
- (transitive) To extort.
Translations
Noun
writhe (plural writhes)
- (rare) A contortion.
- (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
Anagrams
- Wither, whiter, wither, wither-
Middle English
Verb
writhe
- Alternative form of writhen
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