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tremor

/ˈtɹɛmɚ/ noun B2
  1. A shake, quiver, or vibration. · She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
  2. A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions. · The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.
  3. An earthquake. · Did you feel the tremor this morning?

Plural tremors

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Her fright and nervousness vanished; and she began her recitation, her clear, sweet voice reaching to the farthest corner of the room without a tremor or a break.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 284 · C1
Often it was only the smallest trace, Watson, the faintest indication, and yet it was enough to tell me that the great malignant brain was there, as the gentlest tremors of the edges of the web remind one of the foul spider which lurks in the centre.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 33 · C1
The mother was at home—a little, fluffy, blue-eyed person, in a tremor of fear and indignation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 49 · C1
“‘“It is this:—‘I swear by my honor not to reveal to anyone what I have seen and heard on the 5th of February, 1815, between nine and ten o’clock in the evening; and I plead guilty of death should I ever violate this oath.’” The general appeared to be affected by a nervous tremor, which prevented his answering for some moments; then, overcoming his manifest repugnance, he pronounced the required oath, but in so low a tone as to be scarcely audible to the majority of the members, who insisted on his repeating it clearly and distinctly, which he did.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 771 · C1

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