Search Result for "take_aback":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off;
- Example: "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
[syn: shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

take aback
    v 1: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored
         when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock, floor,
         ball over, blow out of the water, take aback]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "take aback":
   abash, appall, astound, bowl down, bowl over, confound, discomfit,
   disconcert, dismay, electrify, frighten, jar, jolt, put out, shake,
   shock, stagger, startle, stun