Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past participle of shake.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Impaired; weakened; disordered; undermined: as, one shaken in health.
- Cracked or split: as, shaken timber.
Wiktionary
- v. Past participle of shake
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Caused to shake; agitated.
- adj. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.
- adj. Impaired, as by a shock.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock
Examples
“Some analysts say President Mubarak wants to “stall” for time in order to consolidate what they described as his shaken grip on power.”
Voice of America: Analyst: Egypt’s President Mubarak Sees Crisis as 'Manageable'
“The story delves into the lives of each teen as they are shaken from the remnants of their childhood and whisked into tumultuous lessons in adulthood and duty, as their respective countries prepare for war.”
“Of one thing he was certain: No drop of red dew shaken from the lion-mane of some sun in torment, was the sounding sphere.”
“Still shaken from the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007, campuses are responding to the demand by adding counselors, reorganizing how they assess students to get to the most acute cases quickly, and training workers to deal with newly emerging problems.”
“At the moment, we Delhiites are still a bit shaken from the series of blasts.”
“Suppose the rest of us could be described as the shaken and the still shaking.”
“Of one thing he was certain: No drop of red dew shaken from the lion-mane of some sun in torment was the sounding sphere.”
“HEAVY snowstorm was raging, and great soft flakes fell through the air like feathers shaken from the wings of an innumerable host of angels.”
“The singing ceased; and for a while nothing was to be heard in the cottage but the low rush and rustle of the wind which had driven away the storm clouds, and the patter of a dislodged rain drop or two that were shaken from the leaves.”
“When the rustle of the breeze among the branches was the only thing left to hear, beside the dripping of the rain drops shaken from the leaves, Juanita shut the door, and came to Daisy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shaken’.
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Olde Englisc
English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
onslaught, slain, clove, clave, thrice, nincompoop, scorn, storm, scant, lurk, beneath, atop and 143 more...
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The Bindery
A list of bookbinding terms and phrases, for assembling new or repairing/reassembling old books.
perfect binding, animal glue, spine, textblock, polyvinyl acetate, double-fan adhesi..., board, backing, rounding, bone, book cloth, pasteboard and 270 more...
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INTERP - speeches can be...
adequate, adroit, blunt, blurred, committed, divisive, exacerbating, fitting, hollow, lengthy, murky, pronounced and 123 more...
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Ending
satan, treason, foreign tension, blacken, reason, hidden, intentions, fallen demon, diction, slogan, jargon, sermon and 27 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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Physical Words
These are words I like or would like to use to describe people's physicality, and are actually physical words. This is a companion to Not Quite Physical Words
gaunt, wizened, limber, rangy, gangly, svelte, cacopygian, callipygian, brittle, limping, tremor, cracked and 7 more...
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Emotions: Fear
Words for or describing fear
afraid, frightened, terrified, horrified, petrified, nervous, anxious, scared, shaken, affright, afeared, timid and 3 more...
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emotion words
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reesetee In rare/antique books, a term used to describe a book in which the sewing or binding has loosened. Not to be confused with stirred. ;-) Feb 22, 2007