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Answer for the clue "Island force caught up in attack: be shocked ", 10 letters:
have a fit

Word definitions for have a fit in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic" [syn: flip one's lid , blow up , throw a fit , hit the roof , hit the ceiling , have kittens ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To experience an epileptic seizure. 2 (context idiomatic English) To become suddenly enraged.

Usage examples of have a fit.

If Mom were home she'd have a fit, but she was out delivering fliers in Lewisport for the K-mart grand opening.

You're simply not a country person Harry, you shouldn't go around building fires, any minute Oscar will be out from his nap and he'll have a fit.

Cyr thought the trainer was going to have a fit and strike the dog dead with his bare hands.

I said quietly, 'And we aren't married, and don't want to have to get married - not the way Joe and Amelia had to - my mother would have a fit.

From time to time she made attempts to get her fat down, picking at her food for a few days until she was so low in spirits that she would have a fit of weeping, and take a medicinal slice of pie.

If you vanish now, she will think back to your last conversation, put two and two together, have a fit of remorse, whatever.