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Definition: Shaken |
ShakenAdjective1. Disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shaken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: ShakenSynonym: jolted (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Adjective: unimproved; (improve; ); deteriorated; Verb: altered, altered for the worse; injured; Verb: sprung; withering, spoiling; Verb: on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky. |
Resolution | Adjective: resolved; Verb: determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute; (brave); self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking; firm, iron, gritty, indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi; inflexible; (hard); obstinate; steady; (persevering) a. |
Weakness | Broken, lame, withered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shaken |
| English words defined with "shaken": all right, all-right ♦ Bead proof, bump around ♦ dice box, dice cup ♦ fine ♦ hunky-dory ♦ Inconcussible ♦ jar, jolted ♦ o.k., okay ♦ pink lady ♦ Quassation ♦ rattle, rattler, rattlesnake, rippled, ruffled ♦ shake, shake up, shaker, Sistrum, Slipstring, swizzle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shaken": Asnapper ♦ dilatancy, Doctor test ♦ Erudition ♦ ice frost ♦ Reed Shaken by the Wind ♦ sieve shakers, Stripa process. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "shaken": Slipstring. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh no, it is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. Willoughby (Sense and Sensibility; writing credit: Emma Thompson) I Chose and my word was shaken, So what (Sunday in the Park with George; writing credit: Georges Seurat; James Lapine) Shaken by not stirred (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) Shaken, not stirred (The Santa Clause; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Once more he was shaken like a leaf. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan shaken up by "Commons Vote". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Horace | The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I say, Jane, what a perfect character you and I should make, if we could be shaken together |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He saw, with disquietude, shaken within him that species of frightful calm which the injustice of his fate had given him. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The stars of heaven were falling upon the earth like the figs cast by the figtree which the wind has shaken. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And the eyes looked away, leaving Al sullen and shaken. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | However, I was terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it were but of half an hour |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Generally, the prognosis for children with shaken baby syndrome is poor. Most will be left with considerable disability. (references) | |
Shaken baby syndrome is a severe form of head injury that occurs when a baby is shaken forcibly enough to cause the baby's brain to rebound (bounce) against his or her skull. (references) | ||
After each use, the brush should be rinsed well with cold water, shaken thoroughly, and hung to dry on the toothbrush rack. Disposable paper cups should be used for rinsing out the mouth. (references) | ||
Economic History | Japan | In recent years, Japanese industry has been shaken by a record number of bankruptcies. (references) |
Indonesia | These developments have shaken most analysts' faith in the reform credentials of the Wahid administration. (references) | |
Philippines | Despite the shaken state of the country, the United States and the Philippines decided to move forward with plans for independence. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute |
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Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose--the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Instead, we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence. |
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| "Shaken" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 96.62% of the time. "Shaken" is used about 768 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 96.62% | 742 | 9,161 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.38% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 768 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "shaken". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Salamis | N/A | Biblical | Shaken |
| Seleucia | N/A | Biblical | Shaken or beaten by the waves |
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Expressions using "shaken": be shaken ♦ being shaken ♦ disturbed jolted shaken ♦ shaken baby syndrome ♦ shaken brain trauma ♦ shaken impact syndrome ♦ shaken out ♦ shaken to the foundations ♦ shaken up ♦ whiplash shaken infant syndrome. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shaken": shaken-up. | |
Ending with "shaken": Nerve-shaken, sob-shaken, wind-shaken. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shaken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | تزعزع (be shaken, be shocked, shakiness, stagger). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | потресен (all shook-up, appalling, horrified, shocked, shook-up). (various references) | |
Chinese | 震动 (shake, shaking, shock, shook). (various references) | |
Danish | 2 ml citratblod blandes med 0,1 ml af en haemolyserende oploesning;der tilsaettes 2 ml af en 5% oploesning af ammonium-1-pyrrolidindithioat og rystes med 1 ml 4-methyl-2-pentanon(methylisobutylketon) (to which is added 1 ml of ammonium-pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate 5% solution and shaken with 1 ml of methylisobutylcetone). (various references) | |
Dutch | 2 ml citraathoudend bloed wordt vermengd met 0,1 ml hemolyseveroorzakende oplossing, waaraan 1 ml oplossing is toegevoegd, die 5% ammonium-pyrrolidinedithiocarbamaat bevat en wordt geschud met 1 ml methylisobutylketon (to which is added 1 ml of ammonium-pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate 5% solution and shaken with 1 ml of methylisobutylcetone). (various references) | |
French | secoué, bouleversé (shaky). (various references) | |
German | geschüttelt. (various references) | |
Greek | κουνώ (cradle, dangle, rock, shake, shook, sway, swing), ταράζω (agitate, churn, roil, shake, shook). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מורע" (shocked), מזועזע (alarmed, shocked), מ וער (beaten). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rezeg (judder, oscillate, shook, to flicker, to jar, to quaver, to quiver, to shake, to vacillate, vibrate), reng (shook, to quake, to rock, to shake), remegtet (shook, to judder, to shake), rázkódtat (shook, to shake), ráz (jig, jolt, shake, shook, to jolt, to lurch, to shake), megrendít (concuss, shook, to concuss, to shake, to shock), megremegtet (shook, to shake, to thrill), megrázkódtat (shook, to concuss, to convulse, to judder, to rock, to shake, to shatter), megráz (joggle, shook, to convulse, to jig, to shake), kiráz (shake out, shook, to shake, to shake out), összerázott. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tergoyang (rocked, swayed), tergoncang. (various references) | |
Italian | scosso (affected, shaky, upset). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ぶら下'る (camera shake, for a camera to be shaken, picture blur, shaking, shivering with cold or fear, to be blurred, to dangle, to hang, to suspend, to swing, trembling), 信念が揺るぐ (beliefs are shaken, waver). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぶれる (for a camera to be shaken, to be blurred). (various references) | |
Korean | 동"하". (various references) | |
Manx | crieit (shook), craait (rocked, shook, sprinkled). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akenshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abalado (crank, shook, unsettled, unstable). (various references) | |
Romanian | participiu trecut de la shake. (various references) | |
Russian | трясти (jiggle, joggle, jolt, shake, shakes, shook). (various references) | |
Scottish | sad (aught, dust shaken from anything by beating, or brush off dust, smart blow, thump). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzdrman, potrešen (agitated), particip proš. od shake, ispucan (crannied). (various references) | |
Spanish | pp de shake. (various references) | |
Turkish | sarsılmış (affected, afflicted, all of a doodah, shocked), kötü etkilenmiş, etkilenmiş (affected, moved, smitten, touched), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references) | |
Turkmen | titretmek (be shaken). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự rung (judder, quiver, shake), sự lắc (judder, shake), chốc (shake, while). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 13, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai oi astereV tou ouranou esontai ekpiptonteV kai ai dunameiV ai en toiV ouranoiV saleuqhsontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et erunt stellae caeli decidentes et virtutes quae sunt in caelis movebuntur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & heofenes steorren beoð fallende. & beoð astyrede þa manege þe on heofenasynde. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the sterris of heuene schulen falle doun, and the vertues that ben in heuenes, schulen be moued. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the starres of heven shall fall: and the powers wich are in heven shall move. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved. |
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| Language | Mark Chapter 13, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | ug ang mga bitoon mangatagak gikan sa kahitas-an, ug matay-og ang mga gahum sa kalangitan. |
| Chinese | 眾 星 要 從 天 上 墜 落 、 天 勢 都 要 震 動 。 |
| Croatian | a zvijezde æe s neba padati i sile æe se nebeske poljuljati. |
| Danish | og Stjernerne skulle falde ned fra Himmelen, og de Kræfter, som ere i Himlene, skulle rystes. |
| Dutch | En de sterren des hemels zullen daaruit vallen, en de krachten, die in de hemelen zijn, zullen bewogen worden. |
| Finnish | ja tähdet putoilevat taivaalta, ja voimat, jotka taivaissa ovat, järkkyvät. |
| French | les étoiles tomberont du ciel, et les puissances qui sont dans les cieux seront ébranlées. |
| Gaelic | Agus bithidh reultan neamh a tuiteam, agus gluaisear na cumhachdan a tha sna flathais. |
| German | und die Sterne werden vom Himmel fallen, und die Kräfte der Himmel werden sich bewegen. |
| Haitian Creole | Zetwal yo va sot tonbe nan syèl la, pouvwa yo ki nan syèl la va tranble. |
| Hungarian | És az ég csillagai lehullanak, és az egekben levõ hatalmasságok megrendülnek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bintang-bintang akan jatuh dari langit, dan para penguasa angkasa raya akan menjadi kacau-balau. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan segala bintang di langit akan gugur, dan segala kuat kuasa yang di langit itu pun akan bergoncang-gancing. |
| Italian | e gli astri si metteranno a cadere dal cielo e le potenze che sono nei cieli saranno sconvolte. |
| Latvian | Un zvaigznes kritîs no debesîm, un debess stiprumi sakustçsies. |
| Maori | Ka taka iho nga whetu o te rangi, ka ngaueue nga mea kaha o nga rangi. |
| Norwegian | og stjernene skal falle ned fra himmelen, og himmelens krefter skal rokkes. |
| Portuguese | as estrelas cairão do céu, e os poderes que estão nos céus, serão abalados. |
| Rumanian | stelele vor cqdea din cer, wi puterile cari sknt kn ceruri vor fi clqtinate. |
| Russian | Й ЪЧЕЪ"Щ У Б"ХФ У ОЕ'Б, Й УЙМЩ ОЕ'ЕУОЩЕ ПЛПМЕ'МАФУС. |
| Shuar | Yaasha nayaimpinmaya kakekartatui, tura nayaimpiniam kakaram ainia nu muchitrartatui. |
| Spanish | Las estrellas caerán del cielo, y los poderes que están en los cielos serán sacudidos. |
| Swahili | Nyota zitaanguka kutoka angani, na nguvu za mbingu zitatikiswa. |
| Swedish | och stjärnorna skola falla ifrån himmelen, och makterna* i himmelen skola bäva. |
| Ukrainian | і зорі спадатимуть з неба, і сили небесні порушаться... |
| Uma | "Jadi', nto'u toe mpai', ane timpaliu-pi tempo kaparia toe, hawe'ea anu to mobaraka' hi langi' ralengo. Eo mobali' mobengi, wula uma-pi mehini, betue' roda' ngkai langi'. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "shaken": unshaken. (additional references) | |
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"Shaken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haken, Hekken, Ishkent, Sahafeen, sakan, saken, Saksena, schachen, Schaden, Schagen, schaken, schauen, schlafen, Schraagen, Schukin, Schwake, shace, shacel, Shaen, shagreen, shaiken, shaka, shakel, shakenly, shakey, shakih, Shakin, shakken, Shalke, shamen, shanke, Shanken, shareen, Shatkin, shawen, shekinah, Shenkin, Shiakani, Shuke, slaken, smaken, soaken, spaken. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shaken" (pronounced shā"kun) |
| 5 | sh ā" k u n | unshaken. |
| 4 | -ā" k u n | awaken, bacon, forsaken, Macon, mistaken, reawaken, retaken, taken, waken. |
| 3 | -k u n | falcon, beacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, broken, chicken, darken, deacon, drunken, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, misspoken, outspoken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reckon, republican, second, shrunken, sicken, silicon, slacken, spoken, stricken, sunken, thicken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unspoken, weaken, woken, zircon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-k-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ankhs, ashen, hakes, hanks, hanse, kanes, khans, shake, shank, skean, snake, sneak. | |
-2 letters: anes, ankh, haen, haes, hake, hank, hens, kaes, kane, keas, kens, khan, sake, sane, sank, shea. | |
-3 letters: ane, ash, ask, ens, hae, has, hen, hes, kae, kas, kea, ken, nae, nah, sae, sea, sen, sha, she, ska. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, an. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-k-n-s" | |
+1 letter: hankers, hankies, harkens, khazens, shanked. | |
+2 letters: ankushes, bethanks, hackneys, hawknose, hearkens, khamseen, khanates, newshawk, redshank, skinhead, thankers, unshaken. | |
+3 letters: dakerhens, deckhands, foreshank, handshake, handspike, hankerers, harkeners, hawknoses, icekhanas, kashering, kephalins, khamseens, lunkheads, newshawks, preshrank, redshanks, shakedown, shakiness, shrinkage, skinheads, thankless, unshackle. | |
+4 letters: benchmarks, foreshanks, greenshank, handbasket, handshakes, handspikes, hexokinase, kalanchoes, phenakites, rainchecks, rakishness, shakedowns, shankpiece, sheepshank, shrinkable, shrinkages, unshackled, unshackles, unshakable. | |
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