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
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 Turner has had two seizures since late January, and his left hand trembles, Marshall said. Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
Verb
The clip shows the small dog trembling in the passenger seat of Shae's car, looking very weary and wide-eyed. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025 Needless to say, those of us who remember 1987 are trembling, and were expecting a frightful jobs report. Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tremble
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremble
Noun
  • Amina felt a shudder of annoyance at the bluntness of the comment, and also at its blindness—that signs of her transformation should be guessed at from her appearance.
    Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Over Martin’s delicate playing, her aching rasp resonated to the rafters, a melancholy shudder that still sounded comforting.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The journalist raised her hand, and her voice quivered in seeming alarm as the 6.2-magnitude quake shook Istanbul shortly before 1 p.m. local time on Wednesday, April 23.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Five minutes before the show was to start, nine rows of bleachers in a temporary grandstand, hastily assembled, quivered and crashed, swallowing about 600 men, women and children.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Despite her young age, even a gentle whisper of Lana’s name on the scene is enough to send shivers of excitement down the spines of New Yorkers from the clubs of Brooklyn to Manhattan.
    EW.com, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • His glaring eyes could send shivers down your spine.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Why could not the engineers simply have made the device vibrate and/or light up when locking the door?
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • As news that Williams had been apprehended spread, Dahl’s phone started vibrating with texts from friends.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025

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“Tremble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremble. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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