Word Finder - shaken

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To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.

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He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere.

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To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance or disapproval.

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Shaking his head, he kept repeating "No, no, no".

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To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.

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to shake fruit down from a tree

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To disturb emotionally; to shock.

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He was shaken by what had happened.

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• traumatize

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To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).

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I can't shake the feeling that I forgot something.

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To move from side to side.

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She shook with grief.

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• shiver
• tremble

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(usually as "shake on") To shake hands.

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OK, let's shake on it.

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To dance.

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She was shaking it on the dance floor.

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To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.

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to shake a note in music

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To threaten to overthrow.

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The experience shook my religious belief.

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To be agitated; to lose firmness.

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In a state of shock or trauma.

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We were left shaken by the revelations of abuse.

Deidre took it, shaken by the experience.

She echoed in a shaken tone.

Jessi was shaken by the interaction.

She'd been shaken, and he wanted … needed to verify that she was okay.

She went to the kitchen, surprised at how shaken she already felt.

Southern Albania and Epirus fell once more under Byzantine rule, which, however, was shaken by numerous revolts.

In an age when the foundations of the system on which society had rested for centuries were seriously shaken, such subjects as the right of the magistrate to interfere with the belief of the individual, and the limits of his authority over conscience, naturally assumed a prominence hitherto unknown.'

The yoke of the Empire had been shaken off.

Whatever decisions he'd made, he wouldn't be shaken by anything she said.

He breached her comfort zone in a way that left her shaken, scared.

But the discipline and moral of the army were shaken and its organization faulty.

This expression in Princess Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to be shaken in her determination.

It has been shown that if the organ containing them is shaken for some time, so that the contact between them and the protoplasm of the cells is emphasized, the stimulus becomes more efficient in producing movement.

The papacy, which had been so fundamentally shaken by the great schism of the West, came through this trial victorious.

The power of the Bosnian nobles, though shaken by their defeat, remained unbroken; and they resisted vigorously when their kapetanates were abolished in 1837; and again when a measure of equality before the law was conceded to the Christians in 1839.

The latter was not so shaken as Napoleon believed, and turning to bay inflicted a severe check on its pursuers, who at Ebelsberg lost 4000 men in three xix.

The presence of so small a quantity as i% of alcohol may be detected in ether by the colour imparted to it by aniline violet; if water or acetic acid be present, the ether must be shaken with anhydrous potassium carbonate before the application of the test.

When shaken with potash and air it undergoes autoxidation, hydrogen peroxide being formed first, which converts the trioxide into the dioxide and possibly pertitanic acid.

This structure, which was in the form of a small Doric temple in antis, appears to have suffered from the building above it having been shaken down by an earthquake.

The 6th Corps only was severely shaken, the 4th (the best in the whole army), though it had fought hard twice within fortyeight hours, losing nearly 30% of its strength, was still well in hand, and the 3rd, 2nd and Imperial Guards were almost intact.

At the same time the Jews of the Dispersion had to some extent shaken off the exclusiveness of their old political relations and were prepared to compare and contrast their old territorial theology with cosmopolitan culture.

The flasks were then well shaken, and the yeast cell or cells settled to the bottom, and gave rise to a separate yeast speck.

So dreadful had been the yoke of Rome, which they had shaken off, that they feared to submit to anything similar even under Protestant auspices.

Berengar's belief was not shaken by their arguments and exhortations, and hearing that Lanfranc, the most celebrated theologian of that age, strongly approved the doctrine of Paschasius and condemned that of " Scotus " (really Ratramnus), he wrote to him a letter expressing his surprise and urging him to reconsider the question.

The prosperity of the city, rudely shaken by the Galatians and the Bithynians, was utterly destroyed in the Mithradatic war.

While Howie was joyous that the kidnapper might be apprehended, he remained shaken by having watched the abduction.

He stared at her, still visibly shaken.

Was it fear or the heady feeling of his strong arms that left her shaken?

This dogma was shaken by Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828.

A few scattered units managed to escape, and the left wing retreated unmolested, but at the cost of about 3000 casualties the Allies inflicted a loss of 6000 killed and wounded and 9000 prisoners on the enemy, who were, moreover, so shaken that they never recovered their confidence to the end of the campaign.

It does not follow that faith in the Bible record is shaken, although in some quarters there has been a pronounced tendency to regard the history of the Egyptian sojourn as mythical; yet it cannot be denied that Egyptian records, corroborating at least some phases of the Bible story, would have been a most welcome addition to our knowledge.

The more the car is shaken, the farther it goes!

Cesare's position was greatly shaken, and when he tried to browbeat the cardinals by means of Don Michelotto and his bravos, they refused to be intimidated; he had to leave Rome in September, trusting that the Spanish cardinals would elect a candidate friendly to his house.

Nearly 2,000 children die every year as a result of being shaken.

Shaken baby syndrome is preventable with public education.

These preparations must be shaken well before use and measured with a medicinal teaspoon, not a household teaspoon.

The stability of earth is therefore slightly shaken by this sign's ability to adapt and change when necessary.

The Days of Our Lives cast actors have won numerous awards through the years, and members have shaken up daytime airwaves for decades.

Shaken by the emotions Maryann dragged out of him, Sam went looking for his biological family in season three.

The album was a mild success, but during the tour the internal balance of the band was shaken.

All the martinis are to be shaken, not stirred.

Cats wrestled and played around them while D'Ryn's strict oversight of his and Gage's actions could not be shaken.

But so great was his popularity that the court was decidedly worsted in the contest, and the emperor's authority maLerially shaken.

This habit can be used as a means of killing them, by placing boards or sacks covered with tar below the trees, which are then gently shaken.

Adriatic had been temporarily shaken.

The key of the duke's position was now in Napoleon's hands, Wellington's centre was dangerously shaken, the troops were exhausted, and the reserves inadequate.

Three times shaken by earthquake in the 12th century, it was dismantled by Hulagu in 1260.

Baker described the condition of opinion as to the safe limits of stress as chaotic. " The old foundations," he said, " are shaken, and engineers have not come to an agreement respecting the rebuilding of the structure.

Playfairii, when shaken with water forms a slight but permanent lather, and on this account is used by the Somali women for cleansing their hair, and by the men to whiten their shields; it is known as meena h¢rma in Bombay, and was formerly used there for the expulsion of the guinea-worm.

Faith in the infallibility of the scholastic system was thus shaken, and the system itself was destroyed by the revival of philosophic nominalism, which had been discredited in the 11th century by the realism of the great schoolmen.