The mere idea of swimming across the river made me tremble.
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Tremble
//ˈtɹɛmbl̩//
Synonyms for "tremble" (144 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (43)
Related words (72)
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10 entriesderived
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1 entriesmanner of
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7 entriesTranslations
156 translations across 75 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- tremb verb (to be afraid)
- tund verb (to shake)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τρέμω verb (to shake)
Arabic
4 entries- رَجْفَة noun (a shake)
- اترعد verb (to shake)
- اِخْتَلَجَ verb (to shake)
- اِرْتَجَفَ verb (to shake)
Armenian
2 entries- դող noun (a shake)
- դողալ verb (to shake)
Aromanian
2 entries- treambur verb (to shake)
- treamur verb (to shake)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- titrəmək verb (to shake)
- titrəmək verb (to be afraid)
Belarusian
1 entries- дрыжа́ць verb (to shake)
Bulgarian
4 entries- треперене noun (a shake)
- трепет noun (a shake)
- опасявам се verb (to be afraid)
- треперя verb (to shake)
Catalan
2 entries- tremolor noun (a shake)
- tremolar verb (to shake)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- لەرزە noun (a shake)
- لەرزین verb (to shake)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᎾᏫᎠ verb (to shake)
Chickasaw
1 entries- yollichi verb (to shake)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 哆嗦 noun (a shake)
- 發抖 /发抖 noun (a shake)
- 震顫 /震颤 noun (a shake)
- 顫慄 /颤栗 noun (a shake)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- qaltıramaq verb (to shake)
Czech
2 entries- chvět se verb (to shake)
- třást se verb (to shake)
Dutch
1 entries- beven verb (to shake)
Esperanto
1 entries- tremi verb (to shake)
Finnish
3 entries- värinä noun (a shake)
- täristä verb (to shake)
- väristä verb (to shake)
French
4 entries- tremblement noun (a shake)
- vibration noun (a shake)
- trembler verb (to shake)
- trembler verb (to be afraid)
Friulian
4 entries- balitâ verb (to shake)
- fremi verb (to shake)
- trimulâ verb (to shake)
- trimâ verb (to shake)
Galician
4 entries- tremor noun (a shake)
- buligar verb (to shake)
- treinar verb (to shake)
- tremer verb (to shake)
German
2 entries- Zittern noun (a shake)
- zittern verb (to shake)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 verb (to shake)
Greek
1 entries- τρέμω verb (to shake)
Hindi
1 entries- काँपना verb (to shake)
Hungarian
2 entries- remeg verb (to shake)
- reszket verb (to shake)
Ingrian
3 entries- väry noun (a shake)
- hötissä verb (to shake)
- värissä verb (to shake)
Irish
2 entries- creath verb (to shake)
- creathnaigh verb (to shake)
Italian
3 entries- tremore noun (a shake)
- tremare verb (to shake)
- tremolare verb (to shake)
Japanese
2 entries- 震え noun (a shake)
- 震える verb (to shake)
Kapampangan
1 entries- karug verb (to shake)
Kituba
2 entries- kulenga verb (to shake)
- lenga verb (to shake)
Korean
1 entries- 떨다 verb (to shake)
Latgalian
1 entries- treisēt verb (to shake)
Latin
1 entries- tremō verb (to shake)
Latvian
1 entries- trīcēt verb (to shake)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- rdžaś verb (to shake)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- zidderen verb (to shake)
Macedonian
1 entries- трепери verb (to shake)
Megleno-Romanian
1 entries- trimur verb (to shake)
Middle Korean
1 entries- 드러〮치다〮 verb (to shake)
Māori
4 entries- korohāwini noun (a shake)
- kūnāwiri verb (to shake)
- ngāueue verb (to shake)
- rūrūtaina verb (to shake)
Norman
1 entries- tremblier verb (to shake)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- dirre verb (to shake)
- frykte verb (to be afraid)
- skjelve verb (to shake)
Occitan
1 entries- tremolar verb (to shake)
Old English
1 entries- bifian verb (to shake)
Persian
1 entries- لرزیدن verb (to shake)
Polish
1 entries- drżeć verb (to shake)
Portuguese
3 entries- tremor noun (a shake)
- agitar vigorosamente verb (to shake)
- tremer verb (to shake)
Quechua
1 entries- chuhchuy verb (to shake)
Romanian
1 entries- tremura verb (to shake)
Russian
4 entries- дрожа́ние noun (a shake)
- дрожь noun (a shake)
- дрожа́ть verb (to shake)
- трепета́ть verb (to shake)
Sardinian
4 entries- tremulai verb (to shake)
- tremulare verb (to shake)
- tremuài verb (to shake)
- trimulare verb (to shake)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- drhtati verb (to shake)
- дрхтати verb (to shake)
Sicilian
4 entries- siri scantatu verb (to be afraid)
- trantulijari verb (to shake)
- trantulijari verb (to be afraid)
- trimari verb (to shake)
Slovak
2 entries- chvieť sa verb (to shake)
- triasť sa verb (to shake)
Slovene
2 entries- drhteti verb (to shake)
- tresti se verb (to shake)
Southern Altai
1 entries- тырлаар verb (to shake)
Spanish
4 entries- temblequera noun (a shake)
- temblor noun (a shake)
- vibración noun (a shake)
- rilar verb (to shake)
Swedish
1 entries- darra verb (to shake)
Tajik
1 entries- ларзидан verb (to shake)
Talysh
1 entries- larze verb (to shake)
Tamil
1 entries- நடுங்கு verb (to shake)
Tat
1 entries- lərzilən verb (to shake)
Telugu
1 entries- అదురు verb (to shake)
Thai
1 entries- สั่น verb (to shake)
Tok Pisin
2 entries- guria noun (a shake)
- guria verb (to shake)
Turkish
2 entries- titremek verb (to shake)
- ürpermek verb (to shake)
Ukrainian
2 entries- тремті́ти verb (to shake)
- труси́тися verb (to shake)
Urdu
1 entries- کانپنا verb (to shake)
Venetan
2 entries- tremar verb (to shake)
- tremołar verb (to shake)
Vietnamese
2 entries- run verb (to shake)
- rung verb (to shake)
Walloon
2 entries- triyaner verb (to shake)
- tronner verb (to shake)
Welsh
1 entries- crynu verb (to shake)
Yiddish
2 entries- ציטער noun (a shake)
- ציטערן verb (to shake)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
He began to tremble during the movie.
Source: tatoeba (26469)
I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.
Source: tatoeba (62321)
We felt the earth tremble.
Source: tatoeba (249048)
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