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# shook

«shook» in Mova's school dictionary: **Moved something 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 (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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#m1)

2) Trembled, as with fear or cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#m2)

3) Upset or shocked someone: the news shook us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#m3)

4) Shook hands: took someone's hand to greet them or agree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#m4)

5) Shook his head: moved the head side to side to say no. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#m5)

6) (slang, US) Shook: scared or upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#m6)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x1)
- The ground shook during the earthquake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x2)
- He shook his head: «No, thank you.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x3)
- They shook hands after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x4)
- My hands shook before my speech. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x5)
- The bad news shook the whole school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x6)
- (slang) That horror film had me shook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x7)
- The dog shook itself dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x8)
- But the raven shook his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/2/)
- ["Show, don't tell" means showing a feeling through actions and details: "her hands shook" shows fear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/9/)
- [Maddie tried to fix it with a strawberry sweet, but Chloe shook her head and wouldn't take it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/5/)
- [Kieran and Jake shook hands and agreed: no more street fights, and if someone starts one, they walk away and tell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/9/)
- [Golden ages end too: the An Lushan rebellion of 755 shook the Tang so hard that it never fully recovered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shook» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shook/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.