quake
verb (used without object)
(of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like.
have quaked
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present perfectof quake.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He could not have quaked more, through his whole being, before the teeth, though he had come into the service of some powerful enchanter, and they had been his strongest spells.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Through His power the foundations of religions have quaked and the Nightingale of Utterance hath warbled its melody upon the highest branch of true understanding.
From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
The Duke of Marlborough is said to have quaked in the saddle as he rode into action, saying: "This poor body trembles at what the mind within is about to do."
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
He was either the ambassador of Heaven, before whose voice the people in the time of Elijah would have quaked with unutterable anguish, or a madman who was no longer to be endured.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
Bill may have quaked inwardly as he listened to this epic but outwardly he was unmoved.
From Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
