tremor Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear)
    shudder.
  2. noun a small earthquake
    earth tremor; microseism.
  3. noun shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease)
  4. verb shake with seismic vibrations
    quake.
    • The earth was quaking

WordNet

Tre"mor noun
Etymology
L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble, v.
Definitions
  1. A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
    He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints. Harvey.

Webster 1913