Definitions for quakes

quakes quake

Spelling: [kweyk]
IPA: /kweɪk/

Quakes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in quakes (aekqsu).

Definitions for quakes

noun

  1. an earthquake.
  2. a trembling or tremulous agitation.

verb (used without object)

  1. (of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like:
  2. (of things) to shake or tremble, as from shock, internal convulsion, or instability:

Origin of quakes

before 900; Middle English; Old English cwacian to shake, tremble

Examples for quakes

It is aware that the fear on which it ultimately thrives is that of politicians who quake at its supposed influence and money.

If I do not make Hickman quake now-and-then, he will endeavour to make me fear.

Some of these waves are what we feel when the ground beneath our feet moves during a quake.

It got to be so that whatever we touched began to quake and quiver.

In the hours before the quake, some local authorities ordered evacuations that proved effective in saving lives.

Haiti had extreme problems far pre-dating the quake that should have been central to the planning for any realistic solution.

You'll see the plants which make me quake; you'll see the springs, such a shower of water!

I'm that fearsome, that I declare I shiver and quake at nothing.

The smaller wineries still cleaning up from the quake are not yet equipped to process fruit.

She surveyed us both with a scorn in her eyes that made us quake a little.

Word Value for quakes
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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