Quakename

• 1

  The 99th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

quakenoun/kweɪk/

• 1

  A trembling or shaking.

  • We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.
• 2

  An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.

  • California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.
  • Well, everybody talks about the California quakes But the first time I ever felt the earth shake Was in Miami, when Amy touched me.
• 3

  Something devastating, like a strong earthquake.

  • But HS1 was more exposed to the COVID quake than most given its inherent reliance on international travel, which had collapsed, leaving cross-Channel operator Eurostar stacked with millions of debt.

quakeverb/kweɪk/

• 1

  To tremble or shake.

  • I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.
  • Dorus threw Pamela behind a tree; where she stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is even ready to seize.
• 2

  To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.

  • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in / Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.