atremble
English
Etymology
a- + tremble
Adjective
atremble (not comparable)
- Trembling.
- Synonym: aquiver
- 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Afternoon at a Parsonage” in Poems, London: Logmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, p. 174,
- When the poplar leaves atremble
- Turn their edges to the light,
- 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, New York: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 15, p. 181,
- To Jurgis this man’s whole presence reeked of the crime he had committed; the touch of his body […] set every nerve of him a-tremble […]
- 1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, New York: Ballantine Books, 1952, Chapter 25, p. 375,
- […] he beheld a tear a-tremble on her eyelid.
- 1982, Stephen King, Cujo, p. 45,
- When her stomach felt better (but her legs were all atremble again, something lost, something gained), she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror.