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Definition of shake : 1. A fissure in rock or earth.
2. A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
3. A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
4. A shook of staves and headings.
5. Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
6. obs. p. p. of Shake.
7. One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
8. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
9. The redshank; - so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
10. To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
11. To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.
12. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
13. To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; - generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.

Synonyms:

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jolt, disquiet, quiver, quaver, fluster, churn, shudder, quake, stir, trouble, twitch, upset, jar, perturb, palpitate, agitate, shiver

Usage examples:

• How I should like to know that noble young man, and shake him by the hand." - "The Lesser Bourgeoisie", Honore de Balzac.
• If I could catch that ghost I'd shake it! - "A Woman Named Smith", Marie Conway Oemler.
• Don't shake a fellow like that! - "Frank Merriwell's Chums", Burt L. Standish.