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Does "shook to me" here mean to encourage someone?

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Rebecca

"Shook to me" in this scenario actually means to scare someone so much that it has a long-lasting impact. The phrase is usually "shook me" instead of "shook to me." I believe Imagine Dragons added "to" here to make the sentence flow well with the rest of the verse. You can also say that someone was "shaken up" by something. Ex: The car accident shook me to my core. Ex: The new nurse was shaken by seeing the severely injured patient. Ex: She was shaken up by her father's death.

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