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Shock   /ʃɑk/   Listen
Shock

noun
1.
The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally.  Synonyms: daze, stupor.  "He was numb with shock"
2.
The violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat.  Synonym: impact.
3.
A reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body.  Synonyms: electric shock, electrical shock.  "Electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks"
4.
(pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor.
5.
An instance of agitation of the earth's crust.  Synonym: seismic disturbance.
6.
An unpleasant or disappointing surprise.  Synonym: blow.
7.
A pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field.  "Whole fields of wheat in shock"
8.
A bushy thick mass (especially hair).
9.
A sudden jarring impact.  Synonyms: jar, jolt, jounce.  "All the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers"
10.
A mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses.  Synonyms: cushion, shock absorber.
verb
(past & past part. shocked; pres. part. shocking)
1.
Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off.  Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback.
2.
Strike with disgust or revulsion.  Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize.
3.
Strike with horror or terror.
4.
Collide violently.
5.
Collect or gather into shocks.
6.
Subject to electrical shocks.
7.
Inflict a trauma upon.  Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize.



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"Shock" Quotes from Famous Books



... again into the eyes of the latter, as he replied: "de Soto, my imagination is not—" when suddenly the roar of cannonading again commenced, drowning the remainder of the sentence. Then came a shock that made the stately vessel reel throughout the whole of her massive fabric. There was a rending and grinding of timber, and a frightful crash on deck announced that one of the masts ...
— Across the Spanish Main - A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... breast was armoured with doubled coat of mail whose manifold rings were close-enmeshed after the model of Daud[FN389] the Prophet (upon whom be The Peace!). Moreover he hent in hand a mace erst a block cut out of the live hard rock, whose shock would arrest forty braves of the doughtiest; and he was baldrick'd with an Indian blade that quivered in the grasp, and he bestrode, with a Samhari[FN390] lance at rest, a bay destrier of black points whose peer was not amongst the steeds of the ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... that had followed, might, by connecting the new candidate for power with the public glory, and the existing rulers with all the dishonors which had settled on the French banners, have given an electric shock to the patriotism of the audience, such as would have been capable for the moment of absorbing their feelings as partisans. In a French assembly, movements of that nature, under a momentary impulse, are far from being uncommon. Here, then, if never before, ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 • Thomas de Quincey
... Campaign and General Election, and through the Cabinet making that followed, he relieved the pressure on his over-burdened brain by writing an article on Home Rule, "written with all the force and freshness of a first shock of discovery;" he was also writing daily on the Psalms; he was preparing a paper for the Oriental Congress which was to startle the educated world by "its originality and ingenuity;" and he was composing with great and careful investigation his Oxford lecture on "The rise and ...
— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook
... remind the English reader in explanation of the title that Jena stands for French supremacy and German defeat—Sedan for German victory and a French debacle; but he should be warned that in this truthful mirror of life there may be details liable to shock insular notions. The author could not shrink from such in the fulfilment of his task, which was to give the truth—the whole truth and nothing but the truth. His work must be judged not only as a novel (and assuredly as such it is a most admirable and artistic piece of work), ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein


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