tremble

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TREM'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin tremo.] 1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. 2. To shake; to quiver; to totter. Sinai's gray top shall tremble 3. To quaver; to shake, as sound; as when we say, the voice trembles.
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