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earth-shaking

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adj.1.sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; as, earth-shaking proposals; an earth-shaking event.
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earth-shaking [ˈɜːθˌʃeɪkɪŋ] ADJ earth-shattering [ˈɜːθˌʃætərɪŋ] ADJtrascendental


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Down the great iron way the huge locomotive rushed onward, leaping and bounding across the maze of metals, tearing past the dazzling signal lights, through crowded stations where its passing was like the roar of some earth-shaking monster.
And a rumble quickly grew to an earth-shaking blast of thunder.
For earth-shaking Poseidon gave him all manner of gifts.
 
 
 
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