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volcanic | earthquake |

As a adjective volcanic

is of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.

As a noun earthquake is

a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

volcanic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
  • Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.
  • Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
  • Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 556:
  • With that the system was complete, and ready to have its disastrous effect on Martin Luther's volcanic temper.

    Derived terms

    * volcanically * volcanicity

    earthquake

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
  • Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
  • * 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
  • Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.

    Synonyms

    * earthdin * quake * seism * temblor * terremote * tremblor * tremor

    Derived terms

    * earthquake-prone

    See also

    * aftershock * earthquake engineering * fault line * Richter scale * seismic * seismograph * seismologist * seismology * tremor * tsunami