| shake |  | |
| 1. v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly. | |
| The earthquake shook the building. | |
| He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere. | |
| 2. v. To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative. | |
| Shaking his head, he kept repeating "No, no, no". | |
| 3. v. To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion. | |
| to shake fruit down from a tree | |
| 4. v. To disturb emotionally; to shock. | |
| her father's death shook her terribly; he was shaken by what had happened | |
| w:Elvis Presley, w:All Shook Up | |
| A well'a bless my soul | |
| What'sa wrong with me? | |
| I'm itchin' like a man in a fuzzy tree | |
| My friends say I'm actin' wild as a bug | |
| I'm in love | |
| I'm all shook up | |
| 5. v. To lose, evade, or get rid of (something). | |
| I can't shake the feeling that I forgot something. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To move from side to side. | |
| She shook with grief. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands. | |
| OK, let's shake on it. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To dance. | |
| She was shaking it on the dance floor. | |
| 9. v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill. | |
| to shake a note in music | |
| 10. subst. The act of shaking something. | |
| The cat gave the mouse a shake. | |
| 11. subst. A milkshake. | |
| 12. subst. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float. | |
| 13. subst. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana. | |
| 14. subst. (building material) A thin shingle. | |
| 15. subst. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood. | |
| 16. subst. A fissure in rock or earth. | |
| 17. subst. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc. | |
| 18. subst. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.) | |
| 19. subst. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. | |
| 20. subst. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. | |
| 21. subst. A shook of staves and headings. | |
| 22. subst. (dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. | |
