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All concuss synonyms

con·cuss
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verb concuss

  • tremor — involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling.
  • flutter — to wave, flap, or toss about: Banners fluttered in the breeze.
  • dodder — to shake; tremble; totter.
  • palpitate — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
  • flit — to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
  • fluctuate — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
  • chatter — If you chatter, you talk quickly and continuously, usually about things which are not important.
  • dither — a trembling; vibration.
  • commove — to disturb; stir up
  • joggle — to shake slightly; move to and fro, as by repeated jerks; jiggle: She joggled the key in the lock a couple of times before getting the door open.
  • succuss — to shake up; shake.
  • lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
  • shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
  • hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
  • cool off — If someone or something cools off, or if you cool them off, they become cooler after having been hot.
  • hem in — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
  • hold in — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • terrorise — to fill or overcome with terror.
  • bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
  • cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
  • draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • pin down — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • horn in — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
  • set in motion — prompt, cause to begin
  • stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
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