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temblor

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temblor /ˈtɛmblɚ/ Brit /tɛmˈblɔː/ noun
plural temblors
temblor
/ˈtɛmblɚ/ Brit /tɛmˈblɔː/
noun
plural temblors
Learner's definition of TEMBLOR
[count] chiefly US, somewhat formal
: earthquake
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temblor

noun

tem·​blor ˈtem-blər How to pronounce temblor (audio)
ˈtem-ˌblȯr,
tem-ˈblȯr

Example Sentences

a temblor knocked down many of the buildings in the village
Recent Examples on the Web Social media lit up shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday with anecdotal reports across Bay Area that the temblor could be felt. Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2022 The small temblor at 6:22 a.m. was centered about 21 miles east of Tacoma, near the towns of Enumclaw and Black Diamond. oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2022 The agency said the temblor happened shortly before sunrise at El Sauzal, a tiny community northwest of Ensenada in Mexico. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022 The temblor struck a remote and mountainous area near the border with Pakistan, flattening homes and leaving people trapped beneath the rubble. Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 22 June 2022 Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6.1 temblor near the Pakistani border, but quakes of that strength can cause serious damage in an area where homes and other buildings are poorly constructed and landslides are common. Fazel Rahman Faizi, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2022 Tribune provides first reports to America on great Japanese earthquake — a temblor measuring 7.9 in Tokyo and resulting in 100,000 deaths from the subsequent fires.. Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022 The death toll reported by Bakhtar was equal to that of a quake in 2002 in northern Afghanistan — the deadliest since 1998, when a 6.1 magnitude temblor and subsequent tremors in the remote northeast killed at least 4,500 people. Ebrahim Noroozi, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022 The only more powerful earthquakes in the region in recent years were a 4.4-magnitude temblor centered near Decatur, Tennessee, in December 2018 and a 4.1-magnitude quake centered near Edgefield, South Carolina in February 2014. Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Spanish, literally, trembling, from temblar to tremble, from Medieval Latin tremulare — more at tremble

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of temblor was in 1876
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