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World-shaking   /wərld-ʃˈeɪkɪŋ/   Listen
World-shaking

adjective
1.
Sufficiently significant to affect the whole world.  Synonyms: earthshaking, world-shattering.  "The contest was no world-shaking affair" , "The conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"






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"World-shaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... right splendidly, after such ideas of splendor as a young half-Hun might cherish. For indeed, he had but little and remote Chinese heredity in him; was of the race of Attila and Genghiz, of Mahmoud of Ghazna, Tamerlane, and all the world-shaking Turkish conquerors. —Well, but these people, though by nature and function destroyers, have been great builders too: building hugely, monumentally, and to inspire awe, and not with the faery grace ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris



Words linked to "World-shaking" :   important, significant



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