tremor

1. 1.

   shake with seismic vibrations

   “The earth was quaking”

   Synonymsquake

   Broadershake

Other forms of tremor

plural

tremors·

past tense

tremorred·

present participle

tremorring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tremor

What does tremor mean?

tremor means "an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tremor?

tremor has 2 syllables: trem-or. The stress falls on "trem". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɛmɚ/.

What is another word for tremor?

Close synonyms include shudder, earth tremor, microseism, quake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tremor a common word?

tremor is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.