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# tremble

«tremble» in Mova's school dictionary: **to shake slightly and without wanting to, because you are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (tremble, trembles, trembled, trembling); noun (a tremble)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To tremble is to shake slightly and without wanting to, because you are cold, afraid, excited or weak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#m1)

2) When things tremble, they shake a little, like leaves in the wind or the ground in a small earthquake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#m2)

3) A tremble is a small shaking movement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows strong feelings: «her voice trembled» tells the reader she was scared or upset. In science, the ground trembles in an earthquake. Phrases: «tremble with fear», «tremble with cold», «a trembling voice», «hands trembling».

### examples

- My hands trembled before I went on stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#x1)
- The puppy trembled in the cold rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#x2)
- The ground trembled when the train went past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#x3)
- Her voice trembled as she said sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#x4)
- The leaves trembled in the breeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#x5)
- He trembled with excitement as he opened the present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#x6)
- There was a tremble in his voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#x7)
- Anastasia trembled, and burst into tears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tremble/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: trembled, trembling. Similar words: shake, shiver (from cold), quiver. Tremble is usually small shaking, not big movements.

### In the corpora

- [Toad trembles and holds on to the table leg.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/4/)
- [Nervousness can make the voice shake and the hands fidget or tremble.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/12/)
- [The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.430/)
- [And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said: 'Comest thou peaceably?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.426/)
- [And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.815/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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