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soul-shaking

soul-shaking adjective: frightful; terrifying; extremely unsettling.

Adjective

soul-shaking (comparative more soul-shaking, superlative most soul-shaking)

  1. Frightful; terrifying; extremely unsettling.
    • Nor was this all, for with the flashes came a soul-shaking sound like that of thunder and of crashing trees.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of soul-shaking

comparativemore soul-shaking
superlativemost soul-shaking

Questions about soul-shaking

What does soul-shaking mean?
Soul-shaking means frightful; terrifying; extremely unsettling.
What part of speech is soul-shaking?
Soul-shaking is an adjective.

Words near soul-shaking in the dictionary

  1. soul-searched
  2. soul-searcher
  3. soul-searches
  4. soul-searching
  5. soul-searchings
  6. soul-shaking
  7. soul-sick
  8. soul-sucking
  9. soulache
  10. soulaches
  11. Soulagean

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