tremor
/ˈtɹɛmə/US/ˈtɹɛmɚ/
tremor noun: a shake, quiver, or vibration.
Noun
tremor (plural tremors)
- A shake, quiver, or vibration.
- She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
- A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
- The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.
- An earthquake.
- Did you feel the tremor this morning?
Verb
tremor (third-person singular simple present tremors, present participle tremoring, simple past and past participle tremored)
tremor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
tremor in Hindi
- tremor, shiver
- फुरहरी phurahrī
tremor in Tamil
- உடல் அதிர்வு, சிலிர்ப்பு, தசை நார் வலிப்பு, நடுக்கம், நிலநடுக்கம்
tremor in Urdu
- tremor, vibrancy, vibration
- ارتعاش irti'āś
tremor in Telugu
- tremor, agitation
- దడ daḍa
More languagesFewer languages
- tremor in Malayalam
- ധൂനി dhūni
- tremor in Kannada
- ಕಂಪನ, ಅದಿರುವಿಕೆ, ನಡುಕ, ನೆಲ ನಡುಕ
- tremor in Nepali
- कम्पन kampan, भूकम्प bhūkampa
- tremor in Persian
- لرزش larzeš
- tremor in Vietnamese
- sự run rẩy
Examples of tremor in a sentence
- Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.
- Essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes hand tremors, is suspected by some researchers to be a forme fruste of Parkinson's disease.
- That flutter in your voice is a vocal tremor, caused by the involuntary contractions of muscles in the larynx, throat or other adjacent parts of the body.
Forms of tremor
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tremors |
| alternative form (obsolete) | tremour |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tremors |
| present participle | tremoring |
| past participle | tremored |
| past | tremored |
Origin of tremor
From Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.
Words formed from tremor
Words that rhyme with tremor
Questions about tremor
- What does tremor mean?
- Tremor means a shake, quiver, or vibration.
- What is tremor in Hindi?
- Tremor in Hindi is फुरहरी (phurahrī). See Tremor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tremor?
- Tremor can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tremor?
- Tremor is pronounced /ˈtɹɛmə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tremor?
- The plural of tremor is tremors.
Words near tremor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tremor (page history and authors); फुरहरी (Hindi) (page history and authors); tremor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ارتعاش (Urdu) (page history and authors); దడ (Telugu) (page history and authors); ധൂനി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); tremor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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