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Trembling   /trˈɛmbəlɪŋ/  /trˈɛmblɪŋ/   Listen
Trembling

adjective
1.
Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze.  Synonyms: shaky, shivering.  "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"
noun
1.
A shaky motion.  Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration.



Tremble

verb
(past & past part. trembled; pres. part. trembling)
1.
Move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways.



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"Trembling" Quotes from Famous Books



... trembling in the air, while each was, in a measure, stalling it off, so that they might the more voluptuously and sentimentally enjoy it when it came, they were permanently interrupted by a twenty-minute phone call for Betty from a garrulous aunt. ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... returned to the show, contrite and trembling for his billet, and by this time Nickie the Kid, his bruises painted with iodine, and his battered head liberally patched with court plaster, was sleeping off the effects of his overdose ...
— The Missing Link • Edward Dyson

... in a chair, and the doctor on a seat opposite; then he first saw, by the light of the chapel window, how greatly changed she was. Her face, generally so pale, was inflamed, her eyes glowing and feverish, all her body involuntarily trembling. The doctor would have spoken a few words of consolation, but she did not attend. "Sir," she said, "do you know that my sentence is an ignominious one? Do you know there is fire ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... raised his head from his hands and in a trembling voice he said slowly, "My boy would only live to serve his King. Why should he not serve his King before he lives? My wife ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason

... horrible torments, howling, crying, burning, freezing, melting, swimming in a labyrinth of miseries, scolding, smoking in thine eyes, stinking in thy nose, hoarseness in thy speech, deafness in thy ears, trembling in thy hands, biting thine own tongue with pain, thy heart crushed as with a press, thy bones broken, the devils tossing firebrands unto thee: yea, thy whole carcass tossed upon muck-forks from one devil to another; ...
— Mediaeval Tales • Various


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