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Aquiver vs Ashake - What's the difference?

aquiver | ashake |

As adjectives the difference between aquiver and ashake

is that aquiver is in a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering while ashake is shaking, aquiver.

aquiver

English

Adjective

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  • In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
  • * 1926 , , What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee :
    • He said "Stand and deliver / For I am all aquiver."
    English words prefixed with a-

    ashake

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • shaking, aquiver
  • * {{quote-book, year=1869, author=R. D. Blackmore, title=Lorna Doone, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Dunkery Beacon," whispered John, so close into my ear, that I felt his lips and teeth ashake ; "dursn't fire it now except to show the Doones way home again, since the naight as they went up and throwed the watchmen atop of it. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1898, author=Stanley John Weyman, title=The Castle Inn, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then you'll buy her dear,' cried my lady, ashake with rage. ' }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=D. H. Lawrence, title=Amores, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=AT THE WINDOW THE pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter; While slowly the house of day is closing its eastern shutters. }}