verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a trembling/shaking voice (= a voice that shakes because someone is very nervous or frightened )
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He stood up and began to speak in a trembling voice.
be trembling with excitement (= to be shaking slightly because you are so excited )
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Her hands were trembling with excitement as she opened the letter.
sb's hands shake/tremble
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His hands trembled as he lifted the cup.
sb’s voice trembles/shakes (= sounds unsteady )
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His voice shook with anger.
shake/tremble with fear
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He was shaking with fear after being held at gunpoint.
shake/tremble with rage
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His wife was shaking with rage.
tremble/shiver/shake etc violently
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I was still trembling violently.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
slightly
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The major's hand trembled slightly as he took the cigarette.
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I noticed that his hands were trembling slightly , and he seemed to be blinking back tears.
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As he got on his bike, Jack found himself trembling slightly .
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Voice trembling slightly , I sang the first chorus, mouth too near the mike, and glided towards the stool.
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Now though she was feeling nervous, unsure of herself, and she could feel herself beginning to tremble slightly .
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Slowly, as quietly as he could, Jack pushed through the undergrowth, trembling slightly in anticipation of what might happen.
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A hand that trembled slightly brushed against his forehead as if it could wipe away the weariness.
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His voice trembled slightly , but he didn't think the head noticed.
so
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His hands were trembling so much he was forced to hide them under the sheets.
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The vessel trembled so violently that Robinson thought she would crumble to pieces.
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My voice was trembling so much, I sounded like Edith Piaf with Parkinson's disease.
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His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips.
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Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots.
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The Collector's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill.
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She was trembling so violently that the bed shook.
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She could hardly dress, her fingers were trembling so much.
still
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She was still trembling a little inside, and the thought of staying here in this house on her own made her nervous.
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Eight years later, some of the children still tremble when they see their alleged assailants, who remain in the community.
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She looked up at him in confusion, her body still trembling , lips still swollen from his kiss.
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She sank back into her seat, still trembling .
violently
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When he finally let her go she was still speechless - and trembling violently .
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My legs and arms tremble violently , but I do not cry.
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The shuttle trembled violently as it accelerated along the runway.
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I was trembling violently from head to foot.
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He shivered again, and began to tremble violently .
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He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay.
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His body remained stiff and taut, even though he wanted to tremble violently .
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She's trembling violently and she starts to retch, leaning against me for support as the heaving racks her.
■ NOUN
anger
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Her hands were trembling with anger .
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But oh, what that woman did then, which even now sets me to trembling with both anger and desire.
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I stood there trembling with humiliation and anger .
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I could tell Roque was trembling with anger , and I admit to feeling bad when he slammed down the phone.
body
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Her hands brushed the keys, her head began to nod, then her body to tremble .
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All I had to do was wait until my breath no longer came in short gasps and my body quit trembling .
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My whole body trembled when he came near.
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She looked up at him in confusion, her body still trembling , lips still swollen from his kiss.
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Was this how women cried, their whole bodies trembling ?
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Her body was trembling with fear.
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He held me so high in the air that my whole body trembled .
excitement
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Her fingers trembling with excitement , she fastened it around her neck.
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When I got there, my daughter greeted me with trembling excitement .
fear
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Days of fear and trembling until it blew over.
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I urged myself, struggling with my swamping fear , my trembling guts.
finger
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Her fingers trembling with excitement, she fastened it around her neck.
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Reading it, my finger trembled .
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For a moment his fingers trembled , hovering over it, and then he gripped it firmly with both hands.
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He fished out a cigar and lighted it with fingers which were trembling .
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She could hardly dress, her fingers were trembling so much.
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He fumbled to unclip the keys from his belt and his fingers were trembling as he tried to unlock the door.
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She stroked a sun-warmed block of stone with fingers that trembled .
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Annoyed to find her fingers trembling , she tore it open.
hand
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Surkov's hand trembled as he lit another cigarette.
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In the hallway my hand trembled as I picked up the receiver.
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Susan clasped her hands because she was trembling , but the tension in her locked fingers only made her shake the more.
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Or maybe it was my hand that was trembling .
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But never mind, though their blue-veined old hands might be trembling their fingers could still pull a trigger.
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Pearl was saying, lifting the binoculars, her hands trembling , the lenses tapping the window pane.
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His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips.
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Miguel waited for his car to pass by them before he got back into the car, his hands cold and trembling .
knee
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As he walked forward with his escorts, his knees trembled suddenly.
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Her knees trembled underneath her raincoat.
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She did, but only just, reaching the cafe breathless and with her knees trembling .
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As I started toward my brother, I felt my knees trembling .
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I walk towards her with my knees trembling .
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There was an evil-tasting fluid in my mouth, and my knees trembled .
leg
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His legs were trembling so that his hands wouldn't keep still.
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My legs had begun to tremble , with fear now, not anger.
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My legs and arms tremble violently, but I do not cry.
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She had to sit, her legs were trembling .
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My legs trembled and my arms felt as limp as cloth.
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The female had been put in her place, her legs made to tremble .
lip
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He could see that her lower lip was trembling and that her eyes were moist.
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He noticed that when she saw him, a tiny sparkle came into her eyes and her lips trembled a little.
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Young Zuwaya talked with anger and shock, lips and hands trembling , about the perfidy of the Magharba.
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Hardin looked up to see Pirenne facing him, eyes tragic and lips trembling .
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Her lips parted - trembling - as she hovered on the brink of speech.
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His lips trembled , and he felt strangely compelled to shout a defiant slogan.
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His enthusiasm faded, his voice hesitated, his lips trembled , his eyes dropped in confusion.
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Miguel stood still, lips trembling .
mouth
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Her tiny pink mouth was trembling .
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Howard paused, fists clenched, mouth trembling .
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She could feel her mouth trembling with reaction.
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Russell pushed the soup bowl away and wiped his mouth with a trembling hand.
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Her mouth softened and trembled beneath his.
rage
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Not surprisingly, Gelernter, 42, still is trembling with rage four years after the bomb went off.
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A soldier yells at us to be quiet, and the two of us stand silent and trembling with rage .
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Forester was staring at the cottages and the cars, his fists bunched up hard, trembling with rage .
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For an instant the familiar grounds glare and tremble , the prisoner rages at his bars.
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He trembled , with rage , with panic.
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Woolley, arms folded, watched him get up and limp away, trembling with rage .
voice
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My voice was trembling so much, I sounded like Edith Piaf with Parkinson's disease.
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Ritchie said, his voice trembling .
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The voice wheezed and trembled a little.
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Oh man, her voice was trembling .
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His voice trembled slightly, but he didn't think the head noticed.
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She seemed really upset, her voice trembling a little.
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He was gaunt and hollow-eyed; his voice trembled .
■ VERB
begin
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Then, suddenly, he began to tremble .
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The clerk, standing beside the filing cabinet, began to tremble .
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She had begun to tremble with a sort of frightened and frustrated fury.
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And there on the floor she began to tremble .
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Moon-Watcher began to tremble uncontrollably; he felt as if his brain would burst, and wanted to turn away his eyes.
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Jessamy discovered that she had begun to tremble .
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The little house began to tremble with vibrating pipes and an outburst of cranky voices.
feel
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He didn't scream but she felt him tremble and he made a small, pathetic groan, like an angry puppy.
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As I started toward my brother, I felt my knees trembling .
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She could feel him trembling with fever and cold, although he was close to the fire which burned merrily now.
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At the very thought he felt a tendency to tremble .
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When I left the pharmacy with my call uncompleted, I could feel my legs trembling .
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Then he felt the floor tremble beneath his feet, and a deep throated rumble rose from the bowels of the building.
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She felt them tremble with expectation, parting, a little out of control.
seem
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The rope seemed to tremble , as if something was moving along it.
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As the countdown reaches the two-minute mark, the room seems to tremble .
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Even her red hair seemed to be trembling .
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As he stood there, smoking in his jeans and earth-tone shirt he seemed to be trembling .
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The room seemed to tremble and grow larger again, and the air to settle back into tranquillity.
sit
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It had sat trembling in his hand, its brown eyes full of the same terror he saw now in Ann's.
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Carol was dying, and he cried out in his sleep and sat up trembling with cold sweats in the heat.
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Pipkin sat trembling under a fern, his ears drooping on either side of his head.
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Later on, he sat trembling on the dock.
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When he had left the room, Mr Trotter sat down, trembling .
stand
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She stood trembling , staring at the blank window, feeling smaller than a baby.
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A soldier yells at us to be quiet, and the two of us stand silent and trembling with rage.
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She stood still, though trembling , until the car moved off, and then she fled toward Jane's.
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Miguel stood still, lips trembling .
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Daisy, seeking above all not to betray Aunt Millie, had stood her ground, trembling , white-faced.
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I jumped out of bed and stood trembling .
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When the sickness abated, he stood , sweating and trembling .
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Thus for more than two mortal hours the momentous issue stood trembling in the balance.
start
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She started to tremble deep inside, a nervous quivering that was beyond her control.
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When he started to tremble , he figured this was the best way to catch a cold.
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The hand starts trembling way out there.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ginna's whole body trembled as she spoke about her son's death.
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Jane's lip began to tremble and I though she was going to cry.
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Polly hid behind the door, trembling with fear.
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The dog sat trembling in a corner.
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The ground beneath them trembled as the trucks rolled past.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I hurried home, my heart pounding and my hands trembling in spite of myself-I could not believe it.
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Miguel stood still, lips trembling.
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She trembled involuntarily when she saw him.
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She had begun to tremble with a sort of frightened and frustrated fury.
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She was still trembling a little inside, and the thought of staying here in this house on her own made her nervous.
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While this cooked Baucis set the table with her trembling old hands.