See shaky on Wiktionary
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"(of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked."
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"word": "precarious"
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"word": "rickety"
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"sense": "unstady, wobbly",
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"sense": "shaking",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"roman": "chàndǒu de",
"sense": "shaking",
"word": "颤抖的"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "fādǒu de",
"sense": "shaking",
"word": "发抖的"
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