Trembling

/ˈtɹɛmblɪŋ/

Synonyms for "trembling" (136 found)

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Closest matches (28)

Noun(7 words)

quiver quivering shaking anxiety anxious cower fear

agitated agueall shook upall-overish aquiver aspen bashful bumpiness chattering choreacold shiversconvulsion cowardly didder diffident disquiet disquietude dither dithers doddering

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fearful

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Noun(9 words)

fearful frightened jiggling jittering nervous nervousness oscillating palpitation quail

fearing fearsome fidgetiness fidgeting fidgets fidgetyfits and startsflutter fluttery goosy heavingin a quiverin fearinquietude jactation jactitation jerkiness jittery joltiness jumpy

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mousy nervous palpitation palsied palsy panting pitapatpitter patterpitter-patter poised

Verb(1 words)

jiggled

Related words (68)

quaking quaver quavering quavery quiver quivering quivery rabbity restlessness scary shakes shaking shaky shiver shivering shivers shiveryshook upshrinking shudder

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Verb(2 words)

quavered shivered

Noun(10 words)

shake shakiness shaky shimmying shiver tension tremor tremulous vibrating vibration

Adjective(3 words)

shaky shivering shuddery

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6 relation types

More general

11 entries

bodily conditionemotional responseemotional statemotion movementphysical statephysiological phenomenonphysiological responsepsychological reactionpsychological statevibration

More specific

20 entries

anxietyanxious quiverdreaddreadful shakefearfearful tremorhand tremornervousness oscillation panicpostural tremorquiver quiveringrest tremorshake shaking

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Collocations

11 entries

physical tremblingstate of tremblingtrembling bodytrembling figuretrembling fingerstrembling handstrembling lipstrembling voicetrembling with anticipationtrembling with fearvisible trembling

Inflections

5 entries

more tremblingmost tremblingtrembled trembles tremblings

Derivations

4 entries

tremble trembler tremblingly tremulous

similar

1 entries

unsteady

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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His legs were trembling from fear.

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My heart is trembling.

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Tom Skeleton was shaking and trembling in every limb.

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Look at those flowers trembling in the breeze.

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