Definitions For Shake

noun

  • Causing to move repeatedly from side to side
  • A reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
  • Grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
  • A note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
  • Frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
  • Building material used as siding or roofing
  • A short, quick movement back and forth or up and down
  • A condition in which parts of your body move in a way that you are not able to control

verb

  • Move with or as if with a tremor
  • Undermine or cause to waver
  • Bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
  • Shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
  • Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
  • Move back and forth or sideways
  • Move or cause to move back and forth
  • Shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
  • Get rid of
  • To move sometimes violently back and forth or up and down with short, quick movements
  • To move or have parts of your body move in short, quick movements and in a way that you are not able to control
  • To free yourself from (someone or something) : to get away from or get rid of (someone or something)

Is Shake a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
11

The word Shake is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Shake in a Sentence

  • The ground shook during the earthquake.
  • The house shook as the train rumbled by.
  • The earthquake shook the ground.
  • He responded to the question with a shake of his head.
  • Give the dice a shake.
  • He drank too much coffee and got a bad case of the shakes.

Synonyms for Shake

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