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  • 21vibrate — verb (I, T) to shake or make something shake continuously with small fast movements: We could feel the floor vibrating to the beat of the music. | The vocal cords vibrate as air passes over them …

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  • 22vibrate — verb 1) the floor beneath them vibrated Syn: quiver, shake, tremble, shiver, shudder, throb, pulsate, rattle; rock, wobble, oscillate, waver, swing, sway, move to and fro; chiefly Brit …

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  • 23vibrate — [17] Vibrate comes from Latin vibrāre ‘move quickly to and fro, shake’. This went back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo European base *wib , *weib ‘move quickly to and fro’, which also produced English weave ‘move to and fro’ (as in ‘weave… …

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  • 24vibrate — vibratingly, adv. /vuy brayt/, v., vibrated, vibrating. v.i. 1. to move rhythmically and steadily to and fro, as a pendulum; oscillate. 2. to move to and fro or up and down quickly and repeatedly; quiver; tremble. 3. (of sounds) to produce or… …

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  • 25vibrate — Synonyms and related words: bob, bobble, bounce, bump, careen, chatter, coggle, continue, dangle, didder, falter, fluctuate, flutter, have an ague, hustle, jactitate, jar, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, librate, lurch, nutate, occur… …

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  • 26vibrate — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To quiver] Syn. fluctuate, flutter, waver, swing; see wave 3 . 2. [To sound] Syn. echo, resound, reverberate; see sound 1 . See Synonym Study at swing . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To move to and fro in short, jerky… …

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  • 27vibrate — vi|brate [ vaı,breıt ] verb intransitive to shake very quickly with small movements: The walls vibrated with the music from next door …

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  • 28vibrate — vi·brate || vaɪ breɪt v. move back and forth rapidly, oscillate; experience a pulsation, tremble; make a sound by vibrating, resonate; be stirred by a moment of deep emotion …

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  • 29vibrate — verb 1》 move with small movements rapidly to and fro. 2》 (of a sound) resonate. Derivatives vibrating adjective Origin ME: from L. vibrat , vibrare move to and fro …

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  • 30vibrate — I. v. n. 1. Oscillate, swing, move to and fro, move backward and forward. 2. Impinge, sound, quiver, produce a vibratory effect. 3. Vacillate, hesitate, waver, fluctuate. II. v. a. 1. Brandish, swing, move to and fro. 2. Cause to quiver, undulate …

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