0 shaking slightly in a way that you cannot control, for example because you are frightened, angry, or excited, or because of illness:
1 an act of shaking slightly in a way that you cannot control, for example because you are frightened, angry, or excited, or because of illness:
He scooped up the trembling dog and dodged speeding vehicles until they both made it to safe ground.
He was struggling with increasingly poor health, visibly suffering from the slurred speech and trembling hands of Parkinson's Disease.
It's one of those horror movies you watch between trembling fingers.
Only a trail of trembling leaves marked where they had passed.
He felt the first tremblings of real fear creeping into his own body.
The left ring finger, placed on a fishing line, is the finger most attuned, Angolan fishermen believe, to the tremblings of the sea.
The trembling poplar shelterbelt trees make movement audible.