Quaking vs Qualm - What's the difference?
quaking | qualm | Related terms |
That shakes or shivers.
Mortality; plague; pestilence.
A calamity or disaster.
A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
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A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now chiefly in negative constructions.)
Quaking is a related term of qualm.
As nouns the difference between quaking and qualm
is that quaking is the action of the verb to quake while qualm is smoke.As an adjective quaking
is that shakes or shivers.As a verb quaking
is .quaking
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Adjective
(head)Derived terms
* quaking aspen * quaking bogVerb
(head)qualm
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
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