take aback

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verb

surprise greatly;
knock someone's socks off (Freq. 1)
- I was floored when I heard that I was promoted
• Syn:
shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water
• Derivationally related forms:
shock (for: shock)
• Hypernyms:
surprise
• Hyponyms:
startle, galvanize, galvanise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will take aback him
- The good news will take aback her
- The performance is likely to take aback Sue