Usually means: Sudden, violent shaking of earth.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. earthquake: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. earthquake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. earthquake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. earthquake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. earthquake: Vocabulary.com
  6. Earthquake, earthquake: Wordnik
  7. earthquake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. earthquake: Wiktionary
  9. earthquake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. earthquake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. earthquake: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. earthquake: Dictionary.com
  13. earthquake: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. earthquake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Earthquake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. earthquake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. earthquake: Rhymezone
  19. earthquake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. earthquake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. earthquake: Free Dictionary
  22. earthquake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. earthquake: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. earthquake: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earthquake: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. earthquake: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. earthquake: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earthquake: Easton Bible
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Earthquake: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earthquake: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  3. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Earthquake, earthquake: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
noun:  (planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.
noun:  (figuratively) A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo an earthquake.

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