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(Latin: bristling, rough, roughness; rudeness; shaking, tremble, trembling, shutter; shock; disgust, hatred; resulting in horror, horrid, etc.)
(Latin: shivering, shaking, quivering)
(Latin: to annoy, to irritate; to bother; an agitation; a shaking, a jolting, a shocking situation)
Word Entries containing the term: “shaking
shaking ague (s) (noun), shaking agues (pl)
1. An acute febrile state with chills: Shaking ague can be a fit of fever accompainied by shivering and by pains in the joints and bones.
2. In medicine, an obsolete term for the severe form of malarial paroxysm: Shaking ague can be a violent attack of sickness which may be due to the sudden occurrence of symptoms, or the acute exacerbation, or the abrupt worsening, of preexisting symptoms.
This entry is located in the following unit: acuto-, acut-, acuti-, acu-, -cusis; also, agu- (page 5)
Word Entries at Get Words: “shaking
shake (verb), shakes; shook; shaking
1. To make many fast small movements up and down, or side to side: The ground and Jason’s house was shaking during the earthquake at night and he and his family almost fell out of their beds!
2. To move or to have parts of a person's body move in short, quick movements and in such a way as to lose control: Expecting her father to call about her mother's condition, Shanna's hand shook as she reached for the phone.
This entry is located in the following unit: English Words in Action, Group S (page 3)