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take aback

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

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Variants

7 surface forms

synonym: shock
pasttense: taked abacktook aback
presentparticiple: taking aback
thirdpersonsingular: takes aback
pastparticiple: taked abacktaken aback

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