Definition for Earthquake:

• A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.

Synonyms for Earthquake:

• n.

  •
  • aftershock.
  •
  • shake,
  • move,
  • repetition.
  •act of god (noun)
  • circumstances beyond controls,
  • inevitable accidents,
  • circumstances beyond ones controls,
  • vires majores,
  • act-god,
  • circumstances beyond ones control,
  • supernatural events,
  • circumstances beyond one controls,
  • freak accidents,
  • act god,
  • circumstances beyond one control,
  • unforeseen events,
  • unavoidable casualties,
  • circumstances beyond one's controls,
  • circumstances beyond control.
  •earthquake (noun)
  • temblor,
  • quake,
  • seism.
  •event (noun)
  • earthquake.
  •quake (noun)
  • fault,
  • microseism,
  • points on the Richter scale secondary tremor,
  • tertiary tremor,
  • seismic upheaval,
  • slip,
  • aftershock an earthquake registering one,
  • earthquake shock,
  • wiggler,
  • volcanic quake,
  • earth tremor,
  • two,
  • etc..
  •shock (noun)
  • jarrings,
  • up-sets,
  • eyeopeners,
  • up-set,
  • in jury,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis tress,
  • in-jury,
  • traumatisms,
  • dis tresses,
  • up sets,
  • in juries,
  • eyeopener,
  • dis-tress.
  •tremor (noun)
  • quakings.
  •tremor from inside the earth (noun)
  • upheaval,
  • movement,
  • macroseism,
  • undulation,
  • seimicity,
  • convulsion,
  • quaker.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • outbreak,
  • epicenter,
  • the San Andreas Fault,
  • seismology,
  • the Richter scale,
  • seismograph,
  • seismic,
  • magnitude.
  •
  • shock wave.

Paraphrases for Earthquake:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    temblor.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    quake, quakes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    quake.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    seismic, seismological, seismology.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    aftershock, epicenter, disaster, seismic, shake, shakes, tsunami, catastrophe, seismology.

Antonyms for Earthquake:

• n.

  • tremor from inside the earth
    perfection.

Earthquake Sentence Examples:

• His hand presses the spring of an influence that casts midnight or sunshine over the World of Traffic, and shakes entire blocks of real estate with a speculative earthquake.

• The railway station appeared to have fallen victim to an earthquake.

Homophones for Earthquake:

• eurydice, erithacus, erotica, erratic, eroticize, earth wax, erotic.

Hypernym for Earthquake:

• n.

  • event
    shock, microseism, submarine earthquake, seismic disturbance, tremor, earth tremor, seaquake.

Hyponym for Earthquake:

• n.

  • event
    geological phenomenon.
  • state
    disturbance, disruption, flutter, to-do, kerfuffle, commotion, hoo-hah, hurly burly, hoo-ha.