˜yÐÄvlog

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atremble

[ uh-trem-buhl ]

adverb

  1. in a trembling state.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of atremble1

First recorded in 1855–60; a- 1 + tremble
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Example Sentences

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It had a crowd of 76,549 that set the place atremble.

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Lane is almost always atremble — be it with erotic joy, suffocating guilt, tingling exultation or crushing self-loathing.

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The ship was a magnificent object that nourished the king’s egomania: It featured sculptures of lions, which represented the king, before whom cowered sculptures of the enemy — Polish noblemen all atremble at their impending deaths.

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Flanks atremble, eyes like stones, he stares at as much of the world as he can see and feels it surging in him, filling his chest as the melting snow fills dried-out creekbeds, tickling his gross, lopsided balls and charging his brains with the same unrest that made him suffer last year at this time, and the year before, and the year before that.

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In Part II of “In Suspect Terrain,†I came to this sentence and thought I might have spotted an error: “But rock columns are generalized; they are atremble with hiatuses; and they depend in large part on well borings, which are shallow, and on seismic studies, which are new, and far between.â€

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