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world-shaking
[ wurld-shey-king ]
adjective
- of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world:
the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
world-shaking
adjective
- of enormous significance; momentous
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Word History and Origins
Origin of world-shaking1
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Example Sentences
Not long afterward came the world-shaking news of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Verily it was only a day of small things, of very humble ambitions, of far from world-shaking successes!
Anyone would think, watching her operate, that a lab technician was a job of world-shaking importance.
From that cavernous, distended throat came a tremendous, world-shaking noise.
Shiva, maddened with grief, gathered up the bones of his unfortunate consort and danced about with them in a world-shaking frenzy.
And this is the way a large number of world-shaking passions begin, since at first we seldom apprehend our potentiality.
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