Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tremble
Participle: trembled
Gerund: trembling
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | tremble |
| you | tremble |
| he;she;it | trembles |
| we | tremble |
| you | tremble |
| they | tremble |
Perfect
| I | have trembled |
| you | have trembled |
| he;she;it | has trembled |
| we | have trembled |
| you | have trembled |
| they | have trembled |
Past
| I | trembled |
| you | trembled |
| he;she;it | trembled |
| we | trembled |
| you | trembled |
| they | trembled |
Pluperfect
| I | had trembled |
| you | had trembled |
| he;she;it | had trembled |
| we | had trembled |
| you | had trembled |
| they | had trembled |
Future
| I | will tremble |
| you | will tremble |
| he;she;it | will tremble |
| we | will tremble |
| you | will tremble |
| they | will tremble |
Future Perfect
| I | will have trembled |
| you | will have trembled |
| he;she;it | will have trembled |
| we | will have trembled |
| you | will have trembled |
| they | will have trembled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tremble |
| you | tremble |
| he;she;it | tremble |
| we | tremble |
| you | tremble |
| they | tremble |
Perfect
| I | have trembled |
| you | have trembled |
| he;she;it | have trembled |
| we | have trembled |
| you | have trembled |
| they | have trembled |
Imperfect
| I | trembled |
| you | trembled |
| he;she;it | trembled |
| we | trembled |
| you | trembled |
| they | trembled |
Pluperfect
| I | had trembled |
| you | had trembled |
| he;she;it | had trembled |
| we | had trembled |
| you | had trembled |
| they | had trembled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tremble |
| you | would tremble |
| he;she;it | would tremble |
| we | would tremble |
| you | would tremble |
| they | would tremble |
Perfect
| I | would have trembled |
| you | would have trembled |
| he;she;it | would have trembled |
| we | would have trembled |
| you | would have trembled |
| they | would have trembled |
Imperative
| you | tremble |
| we | Let's tremble |
| you | tremble |
Verbs conjugated like 'tremble'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tremble'
remble,
tramble,
treble,
crumble,
drumble,
grumble,
preamble,
ramble,
romble,
rumble,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make many quick, small movements up and down or from side to side
- jiggle, quake, shag, shake, vibrate, wiggle
- shake
- quake, shiver, shudder, quiver, vibrate, oscillate, quaver, totter
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1303, "shake from fear, cold, etc.," from O.Fr.
trembler "tremble, fear" (11c.), from V.L.
*tremulare (cf. It.
tremolare, Sp.
temblar), from L.
tremulus "trembling, tremulous," from
tremere "to tremble, shiver, quake," from PIE
*trem- "to tremble" (cf. Gk.
tremein "to shiver, tremble," Lith.
trimu "to chase away," O.C.S.
treso "to shake," Goth.
þramstei "grasshopper"). The noun is recorded from 1609.
2. From Middle English tremblen, from Old French trembler, from Late Latin tremulāre, ultimately from Latin tremere (“quiver, shake”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τρέμω (trémō). See: Old French '
trembler', Latin '
tremō'.
Verbs referencing "tremble"
Esperanto
tremi, Spanish
estremecer.
Sample Sentences
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Eliza trembled, and was silent. She had never seen her husband in this mood before; and her gentle system of ethics seemed to bend like a reed in the surges of such passions.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] a large hotel, whose walls and colonnades were so crisp, and thin, and slight, that it had exactly the appearance of being built with cards. I was careful not to draw my breath as we passed, and trembled when I saw a workman come out upon the roof, lest with one thoughtless stamp of his foot he should crush the structure beneath him, and bring it rattling down. The very river that moves the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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He smiled as I looked at these contrivances to while away the time; but when I looked from them to him, I saw that his lip trembled, and could have counted the beating of his heart. I forget how it came about, but some allusion was made to his having a wife. He shook his head at the word, turned aside, and covered his face [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind. My heart bled for him; and when the tears ran down his cheeks, and he took one of the visitors aside, to ask, with his trembling hands nervously clutching at his coat to detain him, whether there was no hope of his dismal sentence being commuted, the spectacle was really too painful to witness. I never saw or heard of any [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I took that opportunity of inquiring how they conducted themselves immediately before going out; adding that I presumed they trembled very much.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] contending bids,—now here, now there,—till the hammer fell. Haley had got him. He was pushed from the block toward his new master, but stopped one moment, and looked back, when his poor old mother, trembling in every limb, held out her shaking hands toward him.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] 's hand; immeasurably outdo his worst belief. That travelled creation of the great satirist 's brain, who fresh from living among horses, peered from a high casement down upon his own kind with trembling horror, was scarcely more repelled and daunted by the sight, than those who look upon some of these faces for the first time must surely be.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The blood flushed in Eliza's pale face; she rose, trembling with nervous anxiety, and looked towards her boy.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Eva, dear child ! what is the matter ? ” said St. Clare, as the child's small frame trembled and shook with the violence of her feelings. “ This child, ” he added, “ ought not to hear any of this kind of thing,—she's nervous. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] to come, wherein their soul rejoiced, yet knew not why; and though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities,—the eternal past, the eternal future. The light shines only on a small space around her; therefore, she needs must yearn towards the unknown; and the voices and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[ fire crackling ] [ Kara, voice trembling ] No. [ gasps ] What have I done ?
(Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part Three)