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Definition: Take Aback |
Take AbackVerb1. Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Take AbackSynonyms: ball over (v), blow out of the water (v), floor (v), shock (v), stun (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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 ошеломить. (various references) iznenaditi (startle, surprise, upset). (various references) förbluffa (amaze, bepuzzle, flabbergast, stupefy). (various references) 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) вразити (slay, startle), захопити зненацька (overtake, take by surprise), поставити в безвихідь. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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