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 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.