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aftershock
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Wikipedia
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Aftershock is a 1990 action / science fiction film directed by Frank Harris , written by Michael Standing , starring James Lew and Michael Standing . It was distributed through Universal Pictures .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also after-shock , 1894, from after + shock (n.1).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The war and its aftershocks had a profound effect on people here and abroad. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A third aftershock of the Six-Day War took place half a world away, in the Soviet Union. ▪ I feel the aftershock of this ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock"). 2 (context figuratively English) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
Usage examples of aftershock.
All of the big quakes and aftershocks are noted, those are the public ones, the ones the perps know.
When it is displayed at the slowest rate, literally hundreds of aftershocks are visible, continuing for over a week.
Its intensity was a shattering, white-hot fulfillment that created exquisite aftershocks until slowly releasing them to a soothing gentleness.
They clung together through the aftershocks, gasping as the dance crested on and on in an unnameable timelessness.
It was smooth and fast, creating aftershocks of her climax that drove her toward a second, and his was nearly as potent.
Trouble let the familiar talk wash over her, letting herself adjust to the aftershocks, the occasional frisson of unrelated sensation as the swollen scalp around the new implant triggered a reaction.
The release, when it came, was glorious, draining her of everything but the small, golden aftershocks that left her trembling.
Numbed by the aftershocks of adrenaline and rage, I left him for the rats or whatever else fate might have in store, and with a last glance at Quires, suspended between the light of heaven and the pit, like the filament in a immense bulb, I began my ascent.
Amanda imagined she felt a tremor under her, a tiny aftershock, the resettling of the stones.
The room was dead quiet except for the squeaking hinges as the door swung a little in the aftershock of its sudden opening.
They were-peaceable-looking creatures, but on reflection not so peaceable: the aftershock was their ferocity.
This was the cold that Bulgarians were gearing up for, as they faced the economic aftershocks of the Gulf crisis—which had begun the previous August when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait—and the collapse of Communism.
She sensed them distinctly, in spite of the aftershocks, the residual excruciation, of the caesure.
Soar's receivers could pick up the blind fallout of the blast, the enharmonic squalling of the debris, the thunderous dis tortion of the aftershock, but no voices.
Several secondary blasts slapped the darkness like aftershocks: the transfection lab crumbled into nothingness, and the walls of the residency compound shuddered, then collapsed.