atremble

English

Etymology

a- +‎ tremble

Adjective

atremble (not comparable)

  1. Trembling.
    Synonym: aquiver
    • 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Afternoon at a Parsonage” in Poems, London: Logmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, p. 174,
      When the poplar leaves atremble
      Turn their edges to the light,
    • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, New York: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 15, p. 181,
      To Jurgis this man’s whole presence reeked of the crime he had committed; the touch of his body […] set every nerve of him a-tremble […]
    • 1922, E. R. Eddison, chapter 25, in The Worm Ouroboros‎, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1952, page 375:
      […] he beheld a tear a-tremble on her eyelid.
    • 1982, Stephen King, Cujo‎, page 45:
      When her stomach felt better (but her legs were all atremble again, something lost, something gained), she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror.
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