world-shaking

[wurld-shey-king]

adjective

of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.

Origin of world-shaking

First recorded in 1590–1600

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Examples from the Web for world-shaking

Contemporary Examples of world-shaking

Not long afterward came the world-shaking news of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Bin Laden’s Life on the Run, Witnessed by Al Qaeda Child Bride
Michael Daly
July 10, 2013

Historical Examples of world-shaking

The world-shaking conceptions have always been won in profound experience.
Understanding the Scriptures
Francis McConnell
A soil which even to Noah was the destined theatre of world-shaking war!
Ghetto Tragedies
Israel Zangwill
All it needs is the electric spark to cause the world-shaking explosion.
The Air Trust
George Allan England
Verily it was only a day of small things, of very humble ambitions, of far from world-shaking successes!
The History of Sir Richard Calmady
Lucas Malet
My Midshipmite, being a hardy veteran in world-shaking naval battles, permitted himself to smile.
Great Britain at War
Jeffery Farnol

British Dictionary definitions for world-shaking

world-shaking

adjective

of enormous significance; momentous

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