shake

Plural: shakes

Noun

• building material used as siding or roofing
• frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
• a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
• grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
• a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
• causing to move repeatedly from side to side
• The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
• A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
• A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
• A milkshake.
• A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
• Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
• An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
• A thin shingle.
• A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
• A fissure in rock or earth.
• A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
• Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
• One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
• 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 shook of staves and headings.
• The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
• A shock or disturbance.
• An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.

Verb

Verb Forms: shook, shaken, shaking, shakes

• To move rapidly to and fro; to tremble.
• move or cause to move back and forth
• move with or as if with a tremor
• shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
• move back and forth or sideways
• undermine or cause to waver
  • "my faith has been shaken"
• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
• get rid of
  • "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
• bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
  • "He was shaken from his dreams"
  • "shake the salt out of the salt shaker"
• shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
  • "shake one's head"
  • "Don't shake your fist at me!"
• To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
• To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
• To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
• To disturb emotionally; to shock.
• To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
• To move from side to side.
• To shake hands.
• To dance.
• To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
• To threaten to overthrow.
• To be agitated; to lose firmness.

Examples

• He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere.
• He was shaken by what had happened.
• Her father’s death shook her terribly.
• His hand would SHAKE with anticipation as he drew his final tiles in the game.
• I can’t shake the feeling that I forgot something.
• OK, let’s shake on it.
• Shaking his head, he kept repeating “No, no, no”.
• She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.
• She shook with grief.
• She was shaking it on the dance floor.
• The cat gave the mouse a shake.
• The earthquake shook the building.
• The experience shook my religious belief.
• to shake a note in music
• to shake fruit down from a tree

Synonyms

agitate, didder, escape from, excite, handclasp, handshake, handshaking, judder, milk shake, milkshake, rock, shake off, shake up, shingle, shiver, stimulate, stir, sway, throw off, tremble, trill, wag, waggle, jiggle, quake, shag, shake, traumatize, vibrate, wiggle

Related Words

knot, spasm, sway, wriggle, SHAKABLE

Anagrams of shake