verb
definition
To tremble or shake.
example
I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.
definition
To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.
noun
definition
The action of the verb to quake.
adjective
definition
That shakes or shivers.
Examples of quaking in a Sentence
In a voice quaking with fear, she began to sing.
Do you think I should? he asked in a quaking voice.
She took it, her insides quaking in anticipation and hunger.
She stood in the middle of the chamber, quaking and praying he wasn.t the sadistic bastard Sasha was.
With quaking heart and trembling knees, he was ushered into the Chief Commissioner 's presence.
Meadow The meadow area supports a range of grass species such as the delicate quaking grass, tufted hair grass and sweet vernal grass.
Slower growing trees that still fall in the fast-growing category are the tulip poplar, which makes flowers that look sort of like tulips in the late spring, Norway spruce, autumn purple ash and the quaking aspen.
It is more valuable for cutting and drying than any of the Quaking Grasses.
Quaking Grass (Briza) - A graceful family of grasses, American and European.
I was also quaking at the knees a little due to lack of culinary prowess, but all fears were dispelled on arrival.
The path soon joins the river bank where you will find quaking grass, betony and common restharrow.
B. media (Common Quaking Grass) is smaller, 9 to 15 inches high.
In the reaction that followed the chaos of the Revolutionary epoch men turned to the papacy as alone giving a foothold of authority in a confused and quaking world.
They raced through the quaking halls toward the entrance, all while the strange roar of an ocean grew louder.
Briza media (quaking grass) is a useful mea'dowgrass.
He.d thought Lankha skittish when he met the healer but soon found all the healers quaking and hiding.
Much inferior in elevation to Snowdon or Cader Idris, Plinlimmon is certainly the most dangerous of the Welsh hills because of its quaking bogs.
The early Friends definitely asserted that those who did not know quaking and trembling were strangers to the experience of Moses, David and other saints.
Whereas both the mountains and valleys of the Astintagh and of the Akato-tagh (the next large range to the Astin-tagh on the south) are arid and desolate in the extreme, smitten as it were with the desiccating breath of the desert, those of the Arka-tagh and beyond are supersaturated with moisture, so that, at any rate in summer, the surface is in many parts little better than a quaking quagmire.