Shakes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHAKES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHAKE, to move to and fro with short, rapid movements
• (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate
• cause to tremble or vibrate
• (of a person, part of the body, or the voice) tremble uncontrollably from a strong emotion
• move (an object) up and down or from side to side with rapid, forceful, jerky movements
• remove (an object or substance) from something by movements of this kind
• grasp (someone) and move them roughly to and fro, either in anger or to rouse them from sleep
• brandish in anger or as a warning; make a threatening gesture with
• get rid of or put an end to
• upset the composure or confidence of; shock or astonish
• cause a change of mood or attitude by shocking or disturbing (someone)
NOUN:
• an act of shaking
• an amount of something that is sprinkled by shaking a container
• a fit of trembling or shivering
• an earth tremor.
• a trill.
• a kind of rough wooden shingle, used especially on rustic buildings

Words related to SHAKES

shake12 shaken13 shaking15 shook12

Words that contain SHAKES

antishakes17 handshakes21 headshakes21 milkshakes23 windshakes21

How to use SHAKES in a sentence

• The other he pinned down by the throat and shook as a terrier shakes a rat.
• He saw again the burly stranger wading through the crowd in the arena, shaking off the packed mob as the prow of a stately ship shakes off the water, to either side.
• The man who meets you and shakes hands with you in the street may have reported on your conduct.
• Here I am on the platform, which shakes as the train travels.
• It shakes up established players, and all the poaching for staff only pushes up salaries and gives hitherto ignored journalists their day in the sun.
• It was like an attack of some violent fever that shakes a strong man and leaves him as weak as a child.
• Thy nod is as the earthquake that shakes the mountains, and thy smile as the dawn of the vernal day.
• The pastor meets strangers, shakes hands with members, makes a special effort to hold a few words of personal conversation with those who have risen for prayer.
• That is why I still tremble a little whenever I think of my good fortune the other afternoon in the Haymarket, and why my pen shakes as I commit the adventure to paper.
• Presently he shook his head as a lion shakes his when about to leap.
• High heaven the footstool of his feet he makes, And wide beneath him all Olympus shakes.
• The dismissal came without warning, like the fall of a tree when no wind shakes the forest, but it was imperative and peremptory.
• There are so many of them that though they step very lightly it shakes the ground.
• It rudely shakes the columns of the temple of his religion.
• He shook off from him, as a dog shakes water from his back, the memory of that white mist-haunted road.
• Those who had the Shakes allowed that they were being jarred by the Hand of Providence.
• She fell down and to-day even France shakes her head or smiles behind her hand when the name of the United States is mentioned.
• He shakes his head to loosen the halo, but in vain.
• In about two shakes he was snorting at my heels again, till I could almost feel his hot breath.
• He had the envelope open in two shakes, with the complicated knife he always carries, and pulled out any amount of paper.
• Although the bridge shakes and swings in a rather alarming manner when a caravan is crossing, it is perfectly safe if not too heavily loaded.
• He was really to go! The young man experienced that reeling, ecstatic shock which shakes one when a long-delayed desire suddenly assumes reality.
• Fairly shaking himself, as a terrier shakes a rat, Charley freed himself of the fear that clutched at his heart and forced himself to think.
• David Lockwin rents head-quarters in the district, and shakes hands with all the touching committees.
• The earthquake in Constantinople, in February, was only one of a series of similar shakes elsewhere.

Similar words containing SHAKE without suffix s

shake12 ashake13 shaked14 shaken13 shaker13 shakers14 shakeup16 shakeout15 shakeups17 unshaked16 unshaken15 antishake16 handshake20 headshake20 milkshake22 shakeable18 shakedown20 shakeouts16 windshake20 antishakes17 boneshaker19 handshakes21 headshakes21 milkshakes23 saltshaker17 shakedowns21 unshakenly20 windshakes21 boneshakers20 earthshaker21 saltshakers18 unshakeable20 unshakeably23 earthshakers22 unshakeableness24

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