Synonyms for shaking
shak·ing

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1. shakingnoun

   the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements

   Synonyms:
   palpitation, vibration, quiver, shakiness, quivering, trembling

2. shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitationnoun

   a shaky motion

   "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"

   Synonyms:
   shiver, quivering, trembling, vibration, tingle, palpitation, oscillation, vibe, quiver, shakiness, shudder, chill, thrill, frisson

Matched Categories

1. • Agitation
   • Motion

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shakingnoun

   Synonyms:
   agitation, concussion, jolting, jolt, shake

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1. shakingnoun

   Synonyms:
   concussion, agitation, disturbance, trembling, convulsion

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1. List of paraphrases for "shaking":

   trembling, agitation, shivering, shakes, throbbing, restlessness, stirring, jolts, waving, shake, rocks, unrest

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1. Christian Linden:

   I saw it shining as soon as I turned the screen over and immediately knew it was a diamond, i was shaking so bad, I asked my buddy to grab it out of the gravel for me!

2. Tom Izzo:

   Not shaking hands, that's typical of our country right now, instead of solving the problem, let's make an excuse and let's see if we can just instead of, confronting and demanding that it changes, let's eliminate it so that we don't have those problems. Let's try to do that. That's perfect us right now, that's not perfect me. That's not happening here. So if some team doesn't want to shake hands, you're gonna see 15 of my guys walk down and shake air. We're going to shake air and I'm gonna to shake air and then we're gonna leave.

3. Cullen Micah Bivens:

   The only thing I really remember from the whole plane ride is I just kind of went through periods of -- I just stared at the back of the seat the whole time, trying to get my mind to wrap around what I'm hearing, it's almost kind of like, this isn't really happening. And I( was) just more of in a state of shock. I would go through periods of shaking and then I would kind of start to lose it a little bit and break down and cry. And it was kind of just a circle and the plane rides just seemed like they took forever.

4. Andrii Maxymov -RRB- Sasha:

   It was very hard because we heard big explosions, like all the time, mostly in the evening, my walls were shaking. Every two minutes we heard explosions. There were such huge explosions at one time that we all, from different rooms, would run into the bathroom. After this, on the sixth day, we decided to leave the house.

5. Sandra Sanders/Reuters Minsk-born Sabalenka:

   I ’m still shaking and super nervous.