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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TREM'BLING, ppr. Shaking, as with fear, cold or weakness; quaking; shivering.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: shaky, shivering, trembling] n
1: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tremble Trem"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trembled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trembling.] [F. trembler, fr. L. tremulus trembling, tremulous, fr. tremere to shake, tremble; akin to Gr. ?, Lith. trimti. Cf. Tremulous, Tremor.] 1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. --Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. --Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing. The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble. --Milton. 3. To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trembling Trem"bling, a. Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Shaking, quivering, tremor, trepidation, tremble.

Moby Thesaurus

agitated, ague, all shook up, all-overish, aquiver, aspen, bashful, bumpiness, chattering, chorea, cold shivers, cowardly, didder, diffident, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fidgetiness, fidgeting, fidgets, fidgety, fits and starts, flutter, fluttery, goosy, heaving, in a quiver, in fear, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, jittery, joltiness, jumpy, mousy, nervous, palpitation, palsied, palsy, panting, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver, quavering, quavery, quiver, quivering, quivery, rabbity, restlessness, scary, shakes, shaking, shaky, shiver, shivering, shivers, shivery, shook up, shrinking, shudder, shuddering, shy, skittery, skittish, spasms, startlish, succussatory, succussion, succussive, throb, throbbing, timid, timorous, tremble, trembly, tremor, tremulant, tremulous, tremulousness, trepidant, trepidation, trepidity, trigger-happy, twitchy, twitter, twittery, unrest, vibrating, vibration, wobbly