shook
part of speech
verb (past tense of shake: shake, shakes, shook, shaken, shaking); adjective (shook — slang, US)
meaning for a pupil
1) Moved something quickly up and down or side to side. tree →
2) Trembled, as with fear or cold. tree →
3) Upset or shocked someone: the news shook us. tree →
4) Shook hands: took someone's hand to greet them or agree. tree →
5) Shook his head: moved the head side to side to say no. tree →
6) (slang, US) Shook: scared or upset. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories it shows feelings: hands shook with fear, a voice shook. In science it describes earthquakes (the ground shook) and mixing (shook the bottle). In everyday manners people shook hands. Phrases: shook hands, shook his head, shook with laughter, shook off a cold.
examples
- She shook the bottle before pouring. tree →
- The ground shook during the earthquake. tree →
- He shook his head: «No, thank you.» tree →
- They shook hands after the match. tree →
- My hands shook before my speech. tree →
- The bad news shook the whole school. tree →
- (slang) That horror film had me shook. tree →
- The dog shook itself dry. tree →
- But the raven shook his head. tree →
note
Irregular verb: shake, shook, shaken. Say «I have shaken», not «I have shook» (that is non-standard). Shook as an adjective («I'm shook») is slang.
In the corpora
- Show, don't tell: instead of "She was scared", write what fear looks like ("Her hands shook.
- "Show, don't tell" means showing a feeling through actions and details: "her hands shook" shows fear.
- Maddie tried to fix it with a strawberry sweet, but Chloe shook her head and wouldn't take it.
- Kieran and Jake shook hands and agreed: no more street fights, and if someone starts one, they walk away and tell.
- Golden ages end too: the An Lushan rebellion of 755 shook the Tang so hard that it never fully recovered.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «shook» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.