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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

shake in one's shoes en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of quake in one's boots.
    • “I’d be shaking in my shoes to ride in the Preakness,” said Desormeaux, who finished dead last in his first Preakness in 1988. “Now, not only have I won it twice [in 1998 on Real Quiet and in 2008 on Big Brown], I’ve lived life. I’ll be as cool as a cucumber in the saddle” with Exaggerator on Saturday. 2016 May 17, Don Markus, “For Kent Desormeaux, Preakness is a welcome Maryland homecoming”, in The Washington Post:

Forms

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shaken in one's shoes Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shook in one's shoes Tense=Past lexicographic
shakes in one's shoes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
shaking in one's shoes Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic