take aback
Verb
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Verb
take aback
- (idiomatic, transitive) To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
- I was rather taken aback by his angry reply.
- The bad news took us aback.
- 2014, Steve Rose, "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review ↗", The Guardian, 1 July 2014:
- They haven't seen humans for years, so when a small expedition, led by Jason Clarke, stumbles into apetopia, both sides are taken aback.
- (nautical, usually passive) Of a ship: to catch it with the sails aback suddenly.
- German: überraschen
- Russian: ошеломля́ть
- Spanish: agarrar en curva, sorprender, pasmar, asombrar, dejar pasmado, dejar estupefacto, agarrar de sorpresa
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