Crossword clues for rocked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rock \Rock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rocked;p. pr. & vb. n. Rocking.] [AS. roccian; akin to Dan. rokke to move, to snake; cf. Icel. rukkja to pull, move, G. r["u]cken to move, push, pull.]
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To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
A rising earthquake rocked the ground.
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To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet. ``Sleep rock thy brain.''
--Shak.Note: Rock differs from shake, as denoting a slower, less violent, and more uniform motion, or larger movements. It differs from swing, which expresses a vibratory motion of something suspended.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: rock)
Usage examples of "rocked".
It had rocked a trifle beneath my weight, but it had been the scraping of its side against the side of my own boat that had seemed most likely to alarm its occupants, if there were any.
CHAPTER VIII They must have carried me, still under the influence of wine fumes, to the chamber where I slept that night, for when I woke the following morning my surroundings were familiar enough, though a glorious maze of uncertainties rocked to and fro in my mind.
It was the only chance and a poor one, but already the first rank of my fleet was trembling on the brink, and without stopping to weigh matters I bounded off my own canoe on to the raft alongside, which rocked with my weight like a tea-tray.
I shouted in an agony of fear, while the stone, gathering motion with every swing, rocked so violently that it was difficult to hang on to it.
The crazy coach rocked on its great leather springs, and swayed like a boat tossed on a stormy sea.
A building of any height with its walls unsupported by neighbouring structures may find its roof rocked to and fro through an arc which has a length of feet, while its base moves only through a length of inches.
In time the hole grew so large that he ventured to try his body in it now and then, shifting about so that the coffins beneath him rocked and creaked.
His frail body rocked back and forth in time to the ringing of the mallets on stone.
While the boat rocked on incoming waves, he drew a bone flute out of his pouch and began to play.
One yanked so hard against the cords that bound him that the post to which he and his comrades were tied, driven deep into the ground, rocked alarmingly.
The floor rocked slightly and steadily, as a boat would, but no waves slapped their hull.
They rocked there, falling into the pulsing rhythm of the floor shuddering under them.
It rocked up and down like a see-saw, the farther end attached to a long rod which disappeared into the pump shaft.
Vlen yelped, and Rezs was rocked by the blow that seemed to strike her side with the stones that hit his.
For century after century, the people of UL took no note of the outer world, even when that world was rocked by the assassination of the last Rivan King and his family.