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Answer for the clue "Taken __: startled ", 5 letters:
aback

Alternative clues for the word aback

Taken __: disconcerted
Taken ___ (surprised)
Taken __ (startled)
One is surprised when taken thus
Way to be taken
Where one is surprisingly taken?
Startling way to be taken

Word definitions for aback in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB take ▪ Being surprised by opinion polls is like being taken aback by blue skies. ▪ Intel was taken aback by the intensity of public anger. ▪ The young major was momentarily taken aback by the sheer opulence of the ...

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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