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SHAKEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock
Example:
the accident left her badly shaken
Synonyms:
jolted; shaken
Classified under:
Similar:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb shake
Context examples:
Emma's very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Elinor's lips had moved with her mother's, and, when the moment of action was over, she wished that she had shaken hands with him too.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“I do not wonder now that you were shaken,” said he at last.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My mother is tolerably well, I trust; though her spirits are greatly shaken.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It frightened and amazed me somewhat; and as for Arthur, he fell a-trembling, and finally was shaken with doubt as with an ague.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The shaken sediments formed features that now appear as a series of low hills apparent in a geological map based on NASA images.
(Signs of Ancient Mars Lakes and Quakes Seen in New Map, NASA)
She buried her head on my shoulder, her frail form shaken with a storm of weeping.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The next instant Martin's right hand had shot to a throttling clutch on his throat, and he was being shaken till his teeth rattled.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I awoke in the morning shaken, weakened, but refreshed.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Von Bork was a strong, self-contained man, but it was easy to see that the news had shaken him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
