tremble
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English tremblen, from Old French trembler, from Late Latin tremulāre, ultimately from Latin tremere (“quiver, shake”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τρέμω (trémō).
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Verb edit
tremble (third-person singular simple present trembles, present participle trembling, simple past and past participle trembled)
- (intransitive) To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
- Her lip started to tremble as she burst into tears
- The dog was trembling from being in the cold weather all day.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
- (intransitive, figurative) To fear; to be afraid.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, James 2:19:
- Thou beleeuest that there is one God, thou doest well: the deuils also beleeue, and tremble.
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to shake
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to be afraid
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Noun edit
tremble (plural trembles)
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a shake
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin tremulus.
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Noun edit
tremble m (plural trembles)
Verb edit
tremble
- inflection of trembler:
Further reading edit
- “tremble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.