Usually means: Sudden, violent shaking of earth.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. earthquakes: Merriam-Webster
  2. earthquakes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. earthquakes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Earthquake's, Earthquakes, earthquake's, earthquakes: Wordnik
  5. earthquakes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. earthquakes: Wiktionary
  7. earthquakes: Dictionary.com
  8. Earthquakes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Earthquakes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Earthquakes: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Earthquakes: Legal dictionary

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  1. Earthquakes: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Earthquakes: Africa Glossary

(Note: See earthquake as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (earthquake)

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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