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# aftershock

«aftershock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a smaller earthquake that comes after a big earthquake in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an aftershock, aftershocks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that comes after a big earthquake in the same area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/#m1)

2) Aftershocks can also mean the effects or upsets that follow a big shocking event. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and safety lessons it explains why people stay careful after an earthquake. In news it describes after-effects of a big event. Phrases: strong aftershock, aftershocks continued.

### examples

- Aftershocks shook the city for days after the earthquake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/#x1)
- Stay out of damaged buildings because of aftershocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/#x2)
- The aftershock was smaller than the main quake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/#x3)
- New Zealand had many aftershocks after the Christchurch earthquake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/#x4)
- The aftershocks of the news were felt across the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/#x5)
- Drop, cover and hold on during an aftershock too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/#x6)

### note

Countable; one word. Safety: aftershocks can knock down buildings weakened by the main earthquake.

### In the corpora

- [After a big earthquake come many smaller aftershocks, sometimes for months or years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aftershock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aftershock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.