10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «TAKE ABACK»
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
take aback habis, i ngjall habi; shastis, le pa mend, le me goje hapur □ The reply
took him so much aback that for a moment he was lost for words. □ He caught
sight of my appearance for the first time and was taken aback at how different I ...
2
The Language of Sailing
tack - take aback 303 With the exception of the foodstuff, whose name may have
been influenced by tackle, the noun and the verb are both doublets of 'tache' as a
noun and a verb, the latter derived from the former, which comes from ...
3
Trukese-English Dictionary
be startled, astonished, astounded, dismayed, taken aback. astonishment: mwaar
(ni.) astound weyit-ffengenniiy (weyit2) (vo.): startle, astound, dismay, astonish,
take aback. eruukeew (vo.): stun, surprise very much, astound, astonish, horrify, ...
TAKE ABACK - TAME extract, fascinate, gate, get, grab, grasp, grip, gross, gyp,
haul, have, income, infer, kidnap, nab, net, obtain, pilfer, plunder, pocket, prefer,
proceeds, profit, quantity, receipts, remove, revenue, rick, root, secure, seize, ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
verb she kissed SirJohn on the cheek, which discomfited him even more:
embarrass, make uncomfortable, make uneasy, abash, disconcert, nonplus,
discompose, discomfort, take aback, unsettle, unnerve, put someone off their
stroke, ruffle, ...
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The Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
:1 take aback surprise; disconcert (your request took me aback). I :1 take aback
astound, astonish, shock, stun. ab'a'cus /abakas, abakos/ n. (pl. ab'a'cus' es)
oblong frame with wires along which beads are slid, used for calculating. a'baft ...
2. disgrace, shame, dishonor, disrepute, obloquy, in- gloriousness; infamy,
ignominy, baseness, vileness, turpitude, meanness, despicableness, contemp-
tibleness. abash, i. disconcert, discomfit, take aback, ruffle, discompose;
embarrass, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale,
1978
... astound, shock, flabbergast, dumbfound, startle, take aback, 'bowl over, stupefy
. astonishing a. amazing, astounding, surprising, shocking, breathtaking,
dumbfounding, awesome, 'eye-popping, startling, dazzling, bewildering,
extraordinary, ...
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus
AB 'aybee/ n. human blood type. ab- /ab, ab/ prefix off; away; from (abduct,
abnormal, abuse). a'back /ab/ adv. archaic backward; behind. D take aback
surprise; disconcert (your request took me aback) . • a take aback astound,
astonish, shock, ...
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Colour Oxford Thesaurus
2 an assured supply of weapons: guaranteed, certain, sure, secure, reliable,
dependable; informal sure-fire. opposites nervous, uncertain. astonish verb
amaze, astound, stagger, startle, stun, confound, dumbfound, nonplus, take
aback, leave ...
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2011