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shake

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Synonyms: shade, shape, slake, shame, shaky, stake, snake, share, shave, sake, hake

Antonyms: shade, shape, slake, shame, shaky, stake, snake, share, shave, sake, hake

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Verb

  1. {{lb|en|transitive|ergative}} To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate [[refusal]], [[reluctance]]{{,}} or [[disapproval]].
  3. To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  4. {{senseid|en|disturb emotionally}} {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[disturb]] emotionally; to [[shock]].
  5. {{lb|en|transitive|idiomatic}} To [[lose]], [[evade]], or [[get rid of]] (something).
  6. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To move from side to side.
  7. {{lb|en|intransitive|usually as "shake on"}} To [[shake hands]].
  8. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[dance]].
  9. {{lb|en|transitive}} To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  10. {{lb|en|transitive|figurative}} To threaten to overthrow.
  11. {{lb|en|intransitive|figurative}} To be agitated; to lose firmness.

Noun

  1. The act of shaking or being shaken; [[tremulous]] or back-and-forth motion.
  2. {{lb|en|usually|in the plural}} A [[twitch]], a [[spasm]], a [[tremor]].
  3. {{lb|en|usually preceded by definite article}} A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
  4. A [[milkshake]].
  5. A [[beverage]] made by adding [[ice cream]] to a (usually [[carbonated]]) drink; a [[float]].
  6. Shake [[cannabis]], small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  7. {{lb|en|US|slang|uncountable}} An [[adulterant]] added to [[cocaine]] powder.<ref>Tom Dalzell (ed.), ''The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English,'' New York: Routledge, 2009, p.{{nbsp}}858.</ref>
  8. A [[crack]] or [[split]] between the growth rings in [[wood]].
  9. A [[fissure]] in [[rock]] or [[earth]].
  10. A type of [[wooden]] [[shingle]] originally made from [[split]] [[timber]].
  11. {{lb|en|informal}} Instant, second. (Especially {{m|en|in two shakes}}.)
  12. {{lb|en|nautical}} One of the staves of a [[hogshead]] or [[barrel]] taken apart.

Proper noun

  1. {{surname|en}}.

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