Careful Words

shaken (adj.)

So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.

When taken,

To be well shaken.

George Colman, The Younger (1762-1836): The Newcastle Apothecary.

When he is forsaken,

Wither'd and shaken,

What can an old man do but die?

Thomas Hood (1798-1845): Spring it is cheery.