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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitationadjective

    a shaky motion

    "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"

  2. shaky, shivering, tremblingadjective

    vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze

    "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"

Wikipedia

  1. Trembling

    A tremor is an involuntary, somewhat rhythmic, muscle contraction and relaxation involving oscillations or twitching movements of one or more body parts. It is the most common of all involuntary movements and can affect the hands, arms, eyes, face, head, vocal folds, trunk, and legs. Most tremors occur in the hands. In some people, a tremor is a symptom of another neurological disorder.

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  1. trembling

    Trembling is a physical reaction characterized by involuntary, often rapid shaking or shivering of a body part, typically triggered by fear, stress, anxiety, cold, or illness. It can also be related to emotional states such as excitement or nervousness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trembling

    of Tremble

  2. Tremblingadjective

    shaking; tottering; quivering

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Trembling in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Trembling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Trembling in a Sentence

  1. Epictetus:

    Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

  2. Virginia:

    If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

  3. Christina Rossetti:

    Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

  4. Mike Elliott:

    It's not safe to drive in Minnesota while you're Black, the fact of the matter is there's so many of us who drive, and if we see police behind us, we're afraid, you know, we're trembling. That is a kind of terror that no citizen of the United States should ever have to face. It's constant. It's ever present.

  5. Kristine Sydney:

    The joy of seeing her. My body can’t even contain it. I’m trembling, not because I’m nervous, but I’m so very, very happy.

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