Synonym: quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble, vibrate. Similar words: earthquake, take the cake, make a mistake, quay, quash, quasi, squaw, quaff. Meaning: [kweɪk] n. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity. v. 1. shake with fast, tremulous movements 2. shake with seismic vibrations.
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1. The quake destroyed mud buildings in many remote villages.
2. Every time I get on a plane, I quake with fear.
3. Social phobics quake at the thought of meeting strangers.
4. They felt the ground quake as the bomb exploded.
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5. The explosion made the whole house quake.
6. The quake reached a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale.
7. Most of the wreckage from the 1985 quake has been cleared.
8. These sudden movements quake the Earth.
9. More than 10,000 houses were flattened by the quake.
10. The biggest quake registered 5.2 on the Richter scale.
11. The quake seriously damaged computers at the U.S.
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13. A quake in the Tehachapi-Bakersfield area 50 miles north of Los Angeles registers 7.7.
14. In 1949, a quake centered near Olympia claimed eight lives.
15. After surveying the quake damage by helicopter, he estimated it at more than $ 1 billion in western Washington alone.
16. The San Francisco quake was mild compared to the roar of divine judgment soon to come.
17. Soil deformation during a quake could bend pipelines as though they were strands of copper wire.
18. The possibility of such a mid-plate quake thus carries a much higher risk than one on a plate boundary.
19. Id says Quake requires a Pentium, though it will run slowly on a 66 or 100 megahertz 80486.
20. During a quake of magnitude 6.1 on 20 February 1990, ground acceleration was measured at 10 percent of gravity.
21. Unfortunately, it made software manufacturers quake in their jewel boxes.
22. The large number of moderate earthquakes that have occurred recently could presage a larger quake soon.
23. An earthquake of magnitude 7 is reckoned as a major quake.
24. The fact that there was not more damage or loss of life was likely due to the nature of the quake.
25. While debris rained down on much of Western Washington during the quake, the more typical liquid precipitation has been strangely absent.
26. This happened in Santa Cruz during the Loma Prieta quake, where many adjoining buildings were of different heights.
27. Ironically, much of the Marina district was built on rubble from the 1906 quake.
28. The city streets were magic again, like they were when stoplights went dark after the quake.
29. Such local bodies are especially important because, by the time foreign aid arrives, most quake victims will have died.
30. Now the goal is to design buildings that also remain functional after a quake.