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quaked

quaked is the simple past and past participle of quake.

Meaning of quake

Verb

quake (third-person singular simple present quakes, present participle quaking, simple past and past participle quaked or (archaic) quoke or (obsolete) quook)

  1. (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
    • I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.
    • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp...1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III...

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What is quaked the simple past and past participle of?
Quaked is the simple past and past participle of quake.

Words near quaked in the dictionary

  1. quake-buttocks
  2. quakebreech
  3. quakebreeches
  4. quakebuttock
  5. quakebuttocks
  6. quaked
  7. quaked in one's boots
  8. quaked in one's shoes
  9. quakelike
  10. Quakenbush
  11. Quakenbushes

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