Trembling

trembling
    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}]
    

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.
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            I tremble still with fear.            --Shak.
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            Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. --Dryden.
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   2. To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.
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            The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top
            Shall tremble.                        --Milton.
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   3. To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the
      voice trembles.
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Trembling \Trem"bling\, a.
   Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- {Trem"bling*ly}, adv.
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   {Trembling poplar} (Bot.), the aspen.
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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