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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quake mean? 

• QUAKE (noun)
  The noun QUAKE has 1 sense:

1. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity

  Familiarity information: QUAKE used as a noun is very rare.

• QUAKE (verb)
  The verb QUAKE has 2 senses:

1. shake with fast, tremulous movements

2. shake with seismic vibrations

  Familiarity information: QUAKE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

earthquake; quake; seism; temblor

Hypernyms ("quake" is a kind of...):

geological phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quake"):

seismic disturbance; shock (an instance of agitation of the earth's crust)

earth tremor; microseism; tremor (a small earthquake)

seaquake; submarine earthquake (an earthquake at the sea bed)

Derivation:

quake (shake with seismic vibrations)

• QUAKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they quake    ... he / she / it quakes   
Past simple: quaked   
Past participle: quaked   
-ing form: quaking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shake with fast, tremulous movements

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

palpitate; quake; quiver

Context example:

His nostrils palpitated

Hypernyms (to "quake" is one way to...):

tremble (move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

quaker (one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shake with seismic vibrations

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

quake; tremor

Context example:

The earth was quaking

Hypernyms (to "quake" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

quake (shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity)

 Context examples 

The volcano has not yet started to produce more quakes.

(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)

The test is called AD RT-QuIC: Alzheimer’s disease real-time quaking induced conversion.

(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)

A 5.3-magnitude quake was recorded at 4:53 a.m Thursday morning (2053 Wednesday night, UTC) in Manay, Davao Oriental.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)

I followed with a quaking heart.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It’s likely that the smallest of the terrestrial planets also experiences Mercury-quakes—something that may one day be confirmed by seismometers.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

I quaked till she was fairly in the carriage, and had a final fright, for as it drove of, she popped out her head, saying, 'Josyphine, won't you—?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Both Earth and its Moon experience what's known as tectonics, processes that push up mountains, rip apart land masses and create quakes.

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)

During a four-day experiment in Monterey Bay, the scientists recorded a 3.5 magnitude quake and seismic scattering from underwater fault zones.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

NASA's Apollo astronauts installed five seismometers that measured thousands of quakes while operating on the Moon between 1969 and 1977, revealing seismic activity on the Moon.

(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)

Whether Mr. Creakle was in earnest, or whether he only did it to frighten me, I don't know, but he made a burst out of his chair, before which I precipitately retreated, without waiting for the escort of the man with the wooden leg, and never once stopped until I reached my own bedroom, where, finding I was not pursued, I went to bed, as it was time, and lay quaking, for a couple of hours.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)