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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

agitated, ague, all shook up, all-overish, aquiver, aspen, bashful, bumpiness, chattering, chorea, cold shivers, cowardly, didder, diffident, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fidgetiness, fidgeting, fidgets, fidgety, fits and starts, flutter, fluttery, goosy, heaving, in a quiver, in fear, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, jittery, joltiness, jumpy, mousy, nervous, palpitation, palsied, palsy, panting, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver, quavering, quavery, quiver, quivering, quivery, rabbity, restlessness, scary, shakes, shaking, shaky, shiver, shivering, shivers, shivery, shook up, shrinking, shudder, shuddering, shy, skittery, skittish, spasms, startlish, succussatory, succussion, succussive, throb, throbbing, timid, timorous, tremble, trembly, tremor, tremulant, tremulous, tremulousness, trepidant, trepidation, trepidity, trigger-happy, twitchy, twitter, twittery, unrest, vibrating, vibration, wobbly

Dictionary Results for trembling:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

trembling
    adj 1: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or
           cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a
           quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more";
           "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking
           knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from
           the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling
           hands" [syn: shaky, shivering, trembling]
    n 1: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his
         pipe" [syn: shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver,
         quivering, vibration, palpitation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Trembling \Trem"bling\, a.
   Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv.
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   Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tremble \Trem"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trembled; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Trembling.] [F. trembler, fr. L. tremulus trembling,
   tremulous, fr. tremere to shake, tremble; akin to Gr. ?,
   Lith. trimti. Cf. Tremulous, Tremor.]
   1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness;
      to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a
      person or an animal.
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            I tremble still with fear.            --Shak.
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            Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. --Dryden.
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   2. To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.
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            The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top
            Shall tremble.                        --Milton.
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   3. To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the
      voice trembles.
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