quake

1. (intransitive) To tremble or shake.Examples: "I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet."; "Dorus threw Pamela behind a tree; where she stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is even ready to seize."; "The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence."intransitive

2. (intransitive, figurative) To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.Examples: "Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear."; "If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in / Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly."; "Now could I drink hot blood / And do such bitter business as the bitter day / Would quake to look on."figurativelyintransitive