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Showing trembling unease or agitation.
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- trepidant voice
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A trepidant voice answered the summons.
She approached with a trepidant step.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more trepidant; superlative most trepidant where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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