tremble 1 of 2

as in shudder
an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold with a tremble, she ventured out into the snow

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tremble

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verb

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Recent Examples of tremble
Noun
Christine Wear’s voice trembles talking about the upcoming flu season. Erika Edwards, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025 Coach Mike McDaniel needs to start winning, fast, to help steady the trembling ground beneath his job security. Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
Kaleena knew her fate before it was announced, teary-eyed and emotional as Kish, with a tremble in her voice, asked her and Alisha to pack their knives and go. Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024 In 2008, Grosz felt the tremble of the Great Recession and just five years later, the aftershock of the Detroit bankruptcy. Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tremble
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremble
Noun
  • Do not get engaged at 21 (Belly and Jeremiah again, with the tiny ring that made TikTok shudder).
    Vogue, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The details of this feat, performed before a crowd in downtown Phoenix, still make those with acrophobia shudder.
    Douglas C. Towne, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The music of home often quivers with nostalgia.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a breathless mood in the air that quivers and quakes at the protests to come.
    Sara Stridsberg September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Grab this sweatsuit and kiss mid-flight shivers goodbye.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Hearing McCartney play Beatles classics, in particular, sends shivers down one’s spine.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Designer Joe Nahem of the esteemed firm Fox-Nahem was then brought in to merge the two spaces into one wildly creative space that vibrates with color, pattern, and texture.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Each of the three biographies—any good biography—vibrates with the intensity of its author’s possession by their subject and the thrill of exhumation, if only metaphoric.
    Megan Marshall September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Tremble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremble. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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