Take Aback

  

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Take Aback

Definition: Take Aback

Take Aback

Verb

1. Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Take Aback

Synonyms: ball over (v), blow out of the water (v), floor (v), shock (v), stun (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Take Aback

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inexpectation

Surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish, dumbfound; (strike with wonder).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Take Aback

Language Translations for "take aback"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zë gafil (taken aback), befasoj (flabbergast, startle, surprise). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сепвам (balk, startle), изненадвам (steal upon, surprise). (various references)

   

German

  

verdutzen (baffle, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, to disconcert), überraschen (astonish, catch unawares, overtake, overtaken, surprise, take by surprise, to surprise, to take by surprise). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megdöbbent (aghast, appall, astonish, astound, dismay, dumbfound, dumbfounded, flabbergast, flummox, stupefied, threw, thrown, thunderstruck, to appal, to appall, to dismay, to dumbfound, to dumfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to flurry, to petrify, to stupefy, to throw). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aketay abackay

   

Russian 

  

ошеломить. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

iznenaditi (startle, surprise, upset). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förbluffa (amaze, bepuzzle, flabbergast, stupefy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, wow). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вразити (slay, startle), захопити зненацька (overtake, take by surprise), поставити в безвихідь. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Take Aback

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-e-k-k-t"

-3 letters: kabaka.

-4 letters: abaca, aback, abaka, abate, aceta.

-5 letters: abet, acta, back, bake, bate, beak, beat, beck, beta, cake, cate, kaka, kata, keck, tace, tack, taka, take, teak.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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