vibrate — OET

vibrate

verb

1 the ground beneath their feet began to vibrate:

quiver, shake, tremble, quaver, waver, shiver, shudder, judder, jiggle, wobble;

rock, undulate, move, heave, convulse, jerk, jolt, jar;

oscillate, vacillate, swing, sway, move to and fro, swing back and forth, swing backwards and forwards, wave, agitate, waggle, wag;

North American wigwag.

2 a low rumbling sound began to vibrate through the car:

throb, reverberate, pulsate, pulse, palpitate, resonate, resound, ring, echo, re-echo, boom, thunder, thump, pound, beat, drum, thud, thrum, hammer;

ripple, murmur, hum, drone;

rare quop.

vibrate Oxford Dictionary of English