shake
What is the Definition of shake?
Noun:
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
Verb:
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move back and forth or sideways
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part)
How can I use shake in a sentence?
Harry nodded, but he could not shake off a lurking feeling that there was something he would forgotten to do, something important.
Harder to shake off was the feeling Harry had gotten from the teacher's look — a feeling that he did not like Harry at all.
The table second from the left clapped this time; several Ravenclaws stood up to shake hands with Terry as he joined them.
Mr. Dursley gave himself a little shake and put the cat out of his mind.
Shake 'em off shake 'em off, he would mutter whenever he did this.