shake

What is the Definition of shake?

Noun:

  1. building material used as siding or roofing
  2. frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
  3. a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
  4. grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
  5. a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
  6. causing to move repeatedly from side to side

Verb:

  1. move or cause to move back and forth
  2. move with or as if with a tremor
  3. shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
  4. move back and forth or sideways
  5. undermine or cause to waver
  6. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
  7. get rid of
  8. bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
  9. 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.


Other meanings of shake (synonyms, cognates).


ENRU
shake
  • трясти, шейк
shake hands
  • пожать руку друг другу, обменяться рукопожатием
shakedown
  • вымогательство
shaken
  • потрясен
shaker
  • шейкер
shakes
  • трясти
shakespeare
  • шекспир
shakespearean
  • шекспировский
shakeup
  • перетряска


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