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verb to take aback
  1. To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
    I was rather taken aback by his angry reply.
    The bad news took us aback.
  2. (nautical) (usually passive) Of a ship: to catch it with the sails aback suddenly.
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    Etymology: (nautical) a square-rigged ship is taken aback when the wind blows on the front of the sails

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