tremor
IPA: trˈɛmɝ
noun
- A shake, quiver, or vibration.
- (medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
- An earthquake.
verb
- To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
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Examples of "tremor" in Sentences
- Tremors in the region are common.
- She realizes the cause of the tremor has moved.
- The emerging neuropathology of essential tremor.
- The Inderol was ineffective in calming the tremor.
- Following the tremor, businesses in the area emptied.
- The first tremor caused the newly built school to kneel.
- In the aftermath of the tremor, of snow fell, people fled.
- At another tremor near dawn the population abandoned the village.
- The tremor is the second to hit England in the space of a few weeks.
- The USGS says the tremor was the worst to hit this region since 1992.
- That is the tremor, that is one of the hallmarks of Parkinson's disease.
- The earthquake swarm was followed by the onset of a seismic eruption tremor.
- In 1918, the frontal section of the building was destroyed by an earth tremor.
- In Parkinson's, the tremor occurs when the hand is relaxed and not being used.
- The extremities are at length seized with a tremor, which is more strongly marked after recovery from a fit of intoxication.
- When severe, this withdrawal is characterized by tremor, restlessness, perceptual disturbances, disorientation, and clouded sensorium.
- Journal Community Friday's quake recorded seven on the Japanese scale in part of northern Japan where the tremor was the most intense.
- Absolute stillness broods over them; no tremor is discernible in leaf or petal; the wide blue flowers gaze up intently into the wide blue sky.
- Naoto Kan, the prime minister, summoned his senior officials before midnight and was informed by the Meteorological Agency that the tremor was an aftershock - the largest to date - from the March 11 earthquake.
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