shaken
Noun pluralshaken
Pluralshaken
- 1Past participle of shake. Use this form after have, has, had, or been.
She has shaken the bottle hard before pouring the juice.
The whole house had shaken when the truck drove past.
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- 2Feeling upset and frightened after something scary or shocking has happened.
Like feeling wobbly inside after a sudden fright.
She felt shaken after the car nearly hit her on the way home.
He was still shaken by the loud crash hours later.
Similarupset, shocked, unsettled, distressed
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- 3A flat throwing star shaped like a spiked wheel, not the long stick kind.
Like a flat metal star with sharp points that you throw.
The ninja hurled a shaken at the wooden target across the yard.
Each shaken had eight sharp points around its edge.
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Showing meanings only.
shaken is a form of shake
shake, verb: To hold something and move it quickly back and forth. Full entry
- Spelling
- shake → shaken: irregular (no -ed)
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Origins
Made from the word "shake" plus the ending "-n".
From the Japanese word 車剣.