WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
3.07
History
Add

tremor noun [ ˈtrɛmə ]

• an involuntary quivering movement.
• "a disorder that causes tremors and muscle rigidity"
Similar: trembling, shaking, shakiness, tremble, shake, quivering, quiver, twitching, twitch, convulsion, vibration, juddering, judder, quavering, quaver, tic,
Opposite: steadiness,
• a slight earthquake.
Similar: earthquake, earth tremor, shock, foreshock, aftershock, quake, shake, tremblor,

tremor verb

• undergo a tremor or tremors.
• "a muscle in my jaw tremored uncontrollably"
Origin: early 17th century: from Latin tremor, from tremere ‘to tremble’.


2025 WordDisk