Verb

(ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.

To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Shake off the golden slumber of repose.

* (John Bunyan) (1628-1688)

I could scarcely shake him out of my company.

To disturb emotionally; to shock.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).

To move from side to side.

*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking .}}

To shake hands.

To dance.

To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.

Verb

(head)

(nonstandard) (shake)

* {{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello Vol. 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Up comes the tavern-keeper, and ketchin' holt of my cote coller, shaked me out in the middle of the dinin'-room floor. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=John M. Taylor, title=The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=MRS. MIGAT--A warm greeting, "how doe yow"--"god was naught"--"Hell need not be feared, for she should not burn in ye fire"--The ghost "stracke" "Mrs. Migat sayth she went out to give her calues meat, about fiue weekes since, & goodwif Segr came to her and shaked her by ye arme, & sd she how doe yow, how doe yow, Mrs. Migatt. }}

* {{quote-book, year=, author=James Joyce, title=Ulysses, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred. }}