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verb

Shock v. t. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

Shock v. t. (past & past part. shocked; pres. part. shocking)

To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence. "Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them." "I shall never forget the force with which he shocked De Vipont."

To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates. "Advise him not to shock a father's will."

(Physiol.) To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.

Shock v. i. To be occupied with making shocks. "Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace."

Shock v. i. To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. "They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together."

adjective

Shocking adj. Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. "The grossest and most shocking villainies."

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Etymology of 'Shocking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shocking" Quotes from Famous Books

... rose from his bed about four, apparently as well as he has usually been in the winter time; returned to it without the least assistance, and in less than a quarter of an hour was a corpse in the arms of his sons, leaving those who knew his worth and deeply lament his loss." "It will be a shocking thing for George and John," wrote Allday Kerrison to ...

— Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913 • James Hooper

... money, and the young man had shot his father-in-law. Milly remembered old Sweet quite vividly. He used to sit on his stoop in his stocking feet, even on Sundays when all the neighborhood was going by to church,—very shocking to Milly's sense of propriety. And the boy had hung around saloons. ...

— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick

... concerning the influence of the death of Jesus, has supposed his case exceptional and his work peculiar. It would be very shocking to most Orthodox minds to suppose that the same law of vicarious sacrifice applies to others; that the sufferings and death of the good, in all ages, have helped to atone for evil; have enabled sinners to obtain pardon. But such, we ...

— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... of course true only of insignificant duties, necessary for appearance' sake. Serious duties, necessary for kindness' sake, must be permitted in any domestic affliction, under pain of shocking ...

— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

... (abominable!); "unprovendered;" "such his tale;" "Ah, suffering to the height of what was sufffered" (a most insufferable line); "amazements of affright;" "The hot, sore brain attributes its own hues of ghastliness and torture" (what shocking confusion of ideas!). ...

— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb

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