atremble

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ tremble.

Adjective

atremble (not comparable)

  1. Trembling.
    Synonym: aquiver
    • 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Afternoon at a Parsonage”, in Poems‎[1], London: Logmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, page 174:
      When the poplar leaves atremble
      Turn their edges to the light,
    • 1906, Upton Sinclair, chapter 15, in The Jungle‎[2], New York: Doubleday, Page, page 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[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 25, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
      […] he beheld a tear a-tremble on her eyelid.
    • 1982, Stephen King, Cujo‎[3], page 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.
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