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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



... cause other their commendable virtues to be abhorred, so the honour of great men's virtues is easily a cloak to their errors." Bligh fell short of being a great man, but neither was he a bad man; and the merit of his achievements, both as a navigator and amid the shock of battle (especially at Copenhagen in 1801, under Nelson), must not be overlooked, even though stern history will not permit his errors ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott
... to his feet in time to meet the shock, and they fell together with a crash, the madman on top. As he blindly threw out his arms in self protection he grasped Bildad's wrist, arresting the course of the descending knife. Before the fiend could snatch ...
— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon
... something awful in this reaction of my spirits. It was painful in the extreme. The very suddenness of the change rendered the shock more acute. But the moment before, I was full of confidence, making fair progress in my enterprise, and cheered with partial success. This unexpected misfortune had interrupted all, and plunged me back again into ...
— The Boy Tar • Mayne Reid
... disabled man is a potential criminal, and that unless he receives some compensation giving him the means of earning honestly his living, he is certain to be a danger or a parasite. This is but natural, for in the first place his physical nature has received a shock, has sustained an outrage, Nature strikes back, and some one has to suffer. The loss of a limb means severed muscles, bones and nerves. Nature never forgets that they ought to be there, but as they are not there she does without ...
— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes
... through the branches, driving so horizontally as to pass overhead. The sheltering thorn-thicket stirs, and a long, deep, moaning roar rises from the fir-trees. Another howl that seems to stun—to so fill the ears with sound that they cannot hear—the aerial host charges the tree-ranks, and the shock makes them tremble to the root. Still another and another; twigs and broken boughs fly before it and strew the sward; larger branches that have long been dead fall crashing downwards; leaves are forced right through ...
— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies


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