Clues for the word "SHAKE"

We've had 87 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 137 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on May 15, 2026.

Definition of shake

- obs. p. p. of Shake.
v. - To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.
v. - Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
v. - To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
v. - To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.
v. i. - To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
n. - The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
n. - A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
n. - A fissure in rock or earth.
n. - A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
n. - One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
n. - A shook of staves and headings.
n. - The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.