Usually means: Surprise or shock someone greatly.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (take aback)

verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
verb:  (nautical, usually passive) Of a ship: to catch it with the sails aback suddenly.

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