- atremble
- adjective
Date: 1862
shaking involuntarily ; trembling <he was white as death and all atremble — Robert Coover>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
atremble
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atremble — 1852, from A (Cf. a ) (1) + TREMBLE (Cf. tremble) … Etymology dictionary
atremble — [ə trem′bəl] adv. [ A 1 + TREMBLE] Old Poet. trembling … English World dictionary
atremble — ə.ˈt adjective Etymology: a (I) + tremble (v.) : trembling, quivering usually used postpositively or predicatively atremble like an aspen leaf Seyril Schochen … Useful english dictionary
atremble — /euh trem beuhl/, adv. in a trembling state. [1855 60; A 1 + TREMBLE] * * * … Universalium
atremble — adjective Trembling, aquiver … Wiktionary
atremble — adj. trembling, shaking, shivering … English contemporary dictionary
atremble — atrem·ble … English syllables
atremble — /əˈtrɛmbəl/ (say uh trembuhl) adverb in a trembling state …
A- — A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
English prefixes — are affixes (i.e., bound morphemes that provide lexical meaning) that are added before either simple roots or complex bases (or operands) consisting of (a) a root and other affixes, (b) multiple roots, or (c) multiple roots and other affixes.… … Wikipedia
