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world-shaking

[ wurld-shey-king ]

adjective

  1. of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world:

    the world-shaking effects of an international clash.



world-shaking

adjective

  1. of enormous significance; momentous


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Word History and Origins

Origin of world-shaking1

First recorded in 1590–1600

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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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