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tremor
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "terror," from Old French tremor "fear, terror, quaking" (13c.), from Latin tremorem (nominative tremor ) "a trembling, terror," from tremere (see tremble (v.)). Sense of "an involuntary shaking" first recorded 1610s and probably represents a ...
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Tremor is a 1961 South African film directed by Denis Scully and co produced by Michael Deeley .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) [syn: shudder ] a small earthquake [syn: earth tremor , microseism ] shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease) v. shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tremor \Tre"mor\, n. [L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble , v.] A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old. He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints. --Harvey. ...
Usage examples of tremor.
Waiting for Bree to comply, he observed the slight tremor in her hand as she reached for the tall-backed chair while keeping her eye on him.
She had been struggling to control the tremors ever since she had taken Starks call at Exotica Erotica.
I blocked my own spasms of sweating tremors by finding the microdot on Naxos among the encyclopedia cards and reading it through the viewer.
Miriam Bancroft volunteered to take every state-of-the-art polygraphic test there is and she passed them all without a tremor.
When he had first settled in Praunce, eleven years earlier, he had worried that the damaged metal structure might not be sound, that his cozy new home might someday fall, brought down by high winds or ground tremors, killing him in its collapse.
Hysteria, so long held at bay by resigned numbness, sent tremors of resurgent fury coursing through her pinned arms and legs.
Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean.
Doc Sherve said, with a tremor in his voice that Ian had never heard before, not from Doc Sherve.
With this tremor, its sponginess began in patches to disappear, and give place to some sort of smooth pale-yellowish substance, which presently had spread so far that it was the sponginess which grew on it in patches.
A phone is only your voice, carried by cords over distance, just as a tremor is carried over the whole length of a taut string if you pluck one end.
In his tremor of rage and excitement his arms felt curiously weak, and his first thought was how impossible it would be to strangle that swinish neck.
His colleagues were both wearing younger sleeves and they showed it less, but if you looked with Envoy eyes, the same tension was there in unconfident, overdone gestures, laughter too readily coughed out, the occasional tremor in a voice as it started up again in a dried throat.
Rhapsody was tremendously saddened to hear that the terminus of the tremor was the House of Remembrance, which ignited in flames and was burned to ashes, along with a goodly portion of the tainted forest that surrounded it.
In her valise she carried data on the recent increase in local, low-level Earth tremors, gathered with the finest instruments.
The tremor in his head and forebody was a little worse than Unnerby remembered.