Definitions for earthquake

earthquake earth·quake

Spelling: [urth-kweyk]
IPA: /ˈɜrθˌkweɪk/

Earthquake is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 26 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in earthquake (aaeehkqrtu).

Definitions for earthquake

noun

  1. a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating.
  2. something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.

Origin of earthquake

1300-50; Middle English erthequake (see earth, quake), replacing Old English eorthdyne (see din1)

Examples for earthquake

In 1997, an earthquake in Assisi caused the collapse of the main cathedral and killed ten people.

God in His mercy brought on the earthquake: it woke me and saved me from death.

In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

The earthquake sparked a surge in religious belief in Japan.

John Thavis, author of The Vatican Diaries called the document an earthquake.

God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still small voice.

He had a feeling that an earthquake had opened the ground at his feet.

If it leads to real change, not just in tone, but also in doctrine and policy, it would indeed be an earthquake.

It is a glimpse at life exactly as it was at 3:32 am on April 6, 2009 when the earthquake stopped time.

Any interruption, even an earthquake, at that moment must have been welcome to Vargrave.

Word Value for earthquake
Scrable

26

Words with friends

26

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