Crossword clues for quaked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Quaking.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.]
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To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. ``Quaking for dread.''
--Chaucer.She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
--Sir P. Sidney. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. `` Over quaking bogs.''
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: quake)
Usage examples of "quaked".
A pleasure-flooded cry tore from her lips as her body quaked and rocked with soul-shattering release.
She thrilled and quaked at the power it conveyed to her exploring fingers.
He shuddered and quaked as his testicles freely gave up the boiling load they had held.
Parfois had quaked to its rocky foundations when he rode in from Shrewsbury late at night in his banished splendour.
A vast sigh shuddered through the air and quaked into absolute silence, as William walked to meet his father, bowed above the extended hand, and kissed the fleshless cheek.
Not six inches from his long stirrup-shoe it bristled and quaked, whining still with an angry sound.
Lewis’s tightly whorled thoughts quaked in fright as he reached the island’s vast neural strata.
The plane quaked, then peeled away rapidly, almost rolling through ninety degrees.
First warning came when the planetary gravity field quaked, warping the battleship’s trajectory by several metres.
His head was twanging with pain, his sight greasy with tears, and he quaked with the memory of his cowardice and the grim result.