ashake
[uh-sheyk]
adjective
shaking (usually used predicatively): The very hills were ashake with the violence of the storm.
RELATED WORDS
rocky, nervous, insecure, weak, precarious, unstable, wobbly, unsettled, jittery, rickety, unsteady, infirm, jerry-built, rattletrap, shaking, tremulous, unsound, unsure, vacillating, wavering
Nearby words
- ash wednesday,
- ash-blond,
- ash-shaytān,
- asha,
- ashab,
- ashamed,
- ashanti,
- ashbery,
- ashbery, john,
- ashburton
Origin of ashake
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for ashake
He seemed to be in the last extremity of fright, with a face the color of clay and his limbs all ashake as one who hath an ague.
The White Company|Arthur Conan Doyle