Definitions for tremble
ˈtrɛm bəltrem·ble

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tremble, shiver, shakeverb

   a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement

2. trembleverb

   move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways

   "His hands were trembling when he signed the document"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tremblenoun

   A shake, quiver, or vibration.

2. trembleverb

   To shake, quiver, or vibrate.

3. Etymology: From trambler and its variants, from tremulare, a derivate of Classical tremere, present active infinitive of tremo.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. To Trembleverb

   Etymology: trembler, Fr. tremo, Lat.

   1. To shake as with fear or cold; to shiver; to quake; to shudder.

   My compassionate heart
   Will not permit my eyes once to behold
   The thing, whereat it trembles by surmise. William Shakespeare.

   God’s name
   And power thou tremblest at. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

   Shew your slaves how cholerick you are,
   And make your bondmen tremble. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

   This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble,
   Touches us not with pity. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   They shall fear and tremble. Jer. xxxiii. 9.

   When he heard the king, he fell into such a trembling that he could hardly speak. Edward Hyde.

   Frighted Turnus trembl’d as he spoke. John Dryden, Æn.

   He shook the sacred honours of his head,
   With terror trembl’d heav’n’s subsiding hill,
   And from his shaken curls ambrosial dews distil. Dryden.

   Ye powers, revenge your violated altars,
   That they who with unhallow’d hands approach
   May tremble. Nicholas Rowe.

   2. To quiver; to totter.

   Sinai’s grey top shall tremble. John Milton.

   We cannot imagine a mass of water to have stood upon the middle of the earth like one great drop, or a trembling jelly, and all the places about it dry. Burnet.

   3. To quaver; to shake as a sound.

   Winds make a noise unequally, and sometimes when vehement tremble at the height of their blast. Francis Bacon.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Trembleverb

   to shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal

2. Trembleverb

   to totter; to shake; -- said of a thing

3. Trembleverb

   to quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles

4. Tremblenoun

   an involuntary shaking or quivering

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tremble

   trem′bl, v.i. to shake, as from fear, cold, or weakness: to shiver: to shake, as sound.—n. the act of trembling: a morbid trembling.—ns. Trem′blement; Trem′bler; Trem′bling.—adv. Trem′blingly.—n. Trem′bling-pop′lar, the aspen.—adj. Trem′bly, tremulous.—adv. tremulously.—adjs. Trem′ūlant, Trem′ūlous, trembling: affected with fear: quivering.—adv. Trem′ūlously.—n. Trem′ūlousness. [O. Fr. trembler—L. tremulus, trembling—tremĕre, to shake.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tremble

   shake unknowingly because of fear or anxiety.

   He was trembling when I got back home. He probably saw a horror movie.

   Submitted by anonymous on March 6, 2019  

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1. • Shake

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tremble' in Verbs Frequency: #852

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tremble in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tremble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of tremble in a Sentence

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

   Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

2. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - denouncing the evils of slavery:

   Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

3. Goa Kerle:

   Make them honour you, fight you or tremble.

4. Kahlil Gibran:

   We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

5. Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln:

   I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

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