tremor
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear)
Types & categories
- vibration hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
shake with seismic vibrations
The earth was quaking
Types & categories
- shake hypernym
Related & opposite
- earthquake derivation
- earth tremor derivation
Sense 3 noun
a small earthquake
Types & categories
- earthquake hypernym
- aftershock hyponym
- foreshock hyponym
Related & opposite
- tremor derivation
Sense 4 noun
shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease)
Types & categories
- quivering hypernym
- essential tremor hyponym
Parts & wholes
- paralysis agitans part holonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shudder |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shiver |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | vibration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | earthquake |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | earth tremor |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | shake |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tremor |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | earthquake |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | aftershock |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | foreshock |
| 4 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | paralysis agitans |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | quivering |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | essential tremor |