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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tremble \Trem"ble\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trembling \Trem"bling\, adjective Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- {Trem"bling*ly}, adverb
{Trembling poplar} (Bot.), the aspen.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trembling
adjective: 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: {quaking}, {quivering}, {shaking}, {shaky}, {shivering}]
noun: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: {shaking}, {shakiness}, {quiver}, {quivering}, {vibration}, {palpitation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "trembling": 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
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