shake

/ˈʃeɪk/

verb 11
noun 18
forms 11
phrases 15

verb11

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to move something fast one way and then the other, again and again
- The earthquake shook the building.
- He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere.
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To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- Shaking his head, he kept repeating “No, no, no”.
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To move from side to side.
- She shook with grief.
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To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- Her father’s death shook her terribly.
- He was shaken by what had happened.
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To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- I can’t shake the feeling that I forgot something.
- Nothing could shake his faith.
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To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- The door finally shook free of its hinges.
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To shake hands.
- OK, let’s shake on it.
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(figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- The experience shook my religious belief.
(figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
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To dance.
- She was shaking it on the dance floor.
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.

noun18

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The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- The cat gave the mouse a shake.
- She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.
[usually plural] A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
A shock or disturbance.
A milkshake.
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(informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- “And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.” — 1960
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A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it. — 1969
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A type of wooden shingle originally made from split timber.
- There is a comet's tail of spilled cream across the cedar shakes and he will have to climb down for the turpentine. — 2003
Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
A fissure in rock or earth.
A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
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(US, slang) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- […] most suppliers will allow up to 120 grams of shake to a kilo, or 12 percent; kilo-level buyers are usually unhappy if they find more. — 1989
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One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- Empty casks are[…]taken to pieces, and the staves closely packed up in a cylindrical form, constituting what are called shakes or packs — 1820
A shook of staves and headings.
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An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- Most of the fission energy was released in the last few generations, so if the device blew itself apart before about fifty-seven shakes had elapsed, […] — 2003
(dialect, UK) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

forms

shaked · shakt · shook · shooketh · shookest · shaken · shooken · shaking · shakes · shaketh · shakest

Phrases with shake