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Answer for the clue "Take ___ (give pause) ", 5 letters:
aback

Alternative clues for the word aback

Off-guard
Toward the rear
Where the offended are taken?
Off guard
Taken ___ (disconcerted)
Surprised (with "taken")
Taken --- (surprised)

Word definitions for aback in dictionaries

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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