| NOUN | act | tremor, shudder | an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) |
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| event | tremor, earth tremor, microseism | a small earthquake | |
| state | tremor | shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease) | |
| VERB | motion | tremor, quake | shake with seismic vibrations |
| Sounds | treh'mer | |
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| Rhymes | Amor ... Zimmer: 100 rhymes with mer... | |
| Meaning | An involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear). | |
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| Synonym | shudder | |
| Broader | vibration, quiver, quivering | The act of vibrating |
| Spanish | estremecimiento, temblor | |
| Catalan | estremiment, tremolor | |
| Meaning | A small earthquake. | |
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| Synonyms | earth tremor, microseism | |
| Narrower | aftershock | A tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake |
| foreshock | A tremor preceding an earthquake | |
| Broader | earthquake, quake, temblor, seism | shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity |
| Spanish | microsismo, movimiento sísmico, temblor | |
| Catalan | moviment sísmic, tremolor | |
| Verbs | tremor | shake with seismic vibrations |
| Meaning | shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease). | |
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| Part of | paralysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinson's, shaking palsy | A degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination |
| Narrower | essential tremor | tremor of unknown cause (usually of the hands and head) that develops in older people |
| Broader | shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation | A shaky motion |
| Spanish | temblor | |
| Catalan | tremolor | |
| Meaning | shake with seismic vibrations. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonym | quake | |
| Broader | shake, agitate | Move or cause to move back and forth |
| Spanish | temblar | |
| Nouns | tremor | a small earthquake |
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