Unawares

• Taken -- (caught unawares)
• Taken -- (surprised)
• Shocked, taken ...
• Taken __: disconcerted
• Taken ___ (given a turn)
• Taken ___ (surprised)
• Taken ___ (startled)
• Surprised way to be taken

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Old English on bæc "at or on the back;" see back (n.). Now surviving mainly in taken aback , originally a nautical expression in reference to a vessel's square sails when a sudden change of wind flattens them back against the masts and stops ...

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