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tremble

See also: Tremble and tremblé

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English tremblen, from Old French trembler, from Late Latin tremulāre, ultimately from Latin tremere (“quiver, shake”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τρέμω (trémō).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛmbl̩/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: trem‧ble

Verb

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tremble (third-person singular simple present trembles, present participle trembling, simple past and past participle trembled)

  1. (intransitive) To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
    Her lip started to tremble as she burst into tears
    The dog was trembling from being in the cold weather all day.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To fear; to be afraid.
    Synonym: quail

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Noun

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tremble (plural trembles)

  1. A shake, quiver, or vibration.

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *trem- (0 c, 19 e)

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin tremulus.

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    Noun

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    tremble m (plural trembles)

    1. aspen

    Verb

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    tremble

    1. inflection of trembler:
      1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
      2. second-person singular imperative

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