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ashake

[ uh-sheyk ]
/ əˈʃeɪk /
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adjective
shaking (usually used predicatively): The very hills were ashake with the violence of the storm.
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Origin of ashake

First recorded in 1855–60; a-1 + shake

Words nearby ashake

good as gold, as, good as one's word, as, ash, Asha, Ashab, ashake, ashamed, Ashanti, A shares, Ashʿarism, Ashbery
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Words related to ashake

insecure, jittery, nervous, precarious, rickety, rocky, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, weak, wobbly, aquiver, faltering, fluctuant, infirm, jellylike, jerry-built, quaking, quivery, rattletrap

How to use ashake in a sentence

  • 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

  • The horse "with long mane ashake; hoofs, heavy with tumult; eyes, glimmering white."

    Barks and Purrs|Colette Willy, aka Colette

  • Nance, all ashake with disgust, stooped suddenly and picked up a lump of rock.

    A Maid of the Silver Sea|John Oxenham

  • Blacky was all ashake again, but this time it wasn't with fear of being caught away from home in the dark; it was with excitement.

    Blacky the Crow|Thornton W. Burgess
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