Shook Meaning
/ʃʊk/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
nounThe parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
Sentence Examples
They shook hands when they met at the airport.
For some reason or another she shook her head.
He grasped my hand and shook it warmly.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The earthquake was so strong that it ____ the entire building violently.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ground ____ violently during the earthquake, causing several old buildings in the city to collapse.
Word Origin & History
Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Rich. Alack, why am I ſent for to a King, Before I haue ſhooke off the Regall thoughts / Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet haue learn'd / To inſinuate,flatter,bowe,and bend my Knee."
— 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 39:
"Pray, assure the empress, from me, that, notwithstanding the councils which have shook the throne of her father and mother, I shall remain here, ready to save the sacred persons of the king and queen, and of her brothers and sisters ;[…]"
— 1806, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson […] , volume 1, Stanhope and Tilling, page 377:
"Although she could have just held it out and it would have shook by itself. His voice was having the same effect on her that the lead guitar on Chris Isaak's Wicked Game had."
— 2010 April 29, “'Now that I'm married...'”, in A Summer Fling, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 211:
"Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook."
— 2015, Gary L. Heyward, Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island, page 239:
"Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK.""
— 2017 March 21, Danny Madion, “Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 5:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The earthquake was so strong that it ____ the entire building violently.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ground ____ violently during the earthquake, causing several old buildings in the city to collapse.