shaken

«shaken» in Mova's school dictionary: a form of "shake": moved quickly up and down or side to side — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form: past participle of shake (shake, shakes, shook, shaken, shaking); adjective (shaken)

meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) Shaken is a form of "shake": moved quickly up and down or side to side. tree →

2) (adjective) Shaken means upset, frightened or shocked after something bad has happened. tree →

3) Shaken off can also mean got rid of something. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in grammar: shake, shook, shaken. In stories: "She was shaken after the accident" shows fear and shock. In science and cooking: a shaken bottle of fizzy drink fizzes over. Phrase: "shaken up".

examples

• The bottle has been shaken, so open it slowly. tree →
• She was shaken after the near miss with the car. tree →
• The house was shaken by the earthquake. tree →
• He looked shaken but was not hurt. tree →
• Have you shaken the paint tin? tree →
• The news left us all shaken up. tree →
• Oh, how gladly she would have shaken off all this grandeur, and laid aside the heavy wreath! tree →

note

Use with have/has/had or be: "has shaken", "was shaken". Simple past is "shook": "He shook the box". Do not write "has shook".

In the corpora

• A baby must never be shaken, because shaking can cause serious brain damage.
• Concussion is a brain injury from the brain being shaken; it can cause headache, dizziness, sickness, confusion and memory gaps.
• A shaken fizzy bottle can spray hard when opened, so never point one at anyone's face.
• Then the earth did shake and quake, the foundations of heaven did tremble; they were shaken, because He was wroth.
• I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shaken» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.