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take aback

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surprise greatly

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Cognitive

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Variants

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

Framework definitions

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surprise greatly

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