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shock
1[ shok ]
noun
- a sudden and violent blow or impact; collision.
- a sudden or violent disturbance or commotion:
the shock of battle.
- a sudden or violent disturbance of the mind, emotions, or sensibilities:
The burglary was a shock to her sense of security. The book provided a shock, nothing more.
- the cause of such a disturbance:
The rebuke came as a shock.
- Pathology. a collapse of circulatory function, caused by severe injury, blood loss, or disease, and characterized by pallor, sweating, weak pulse, and very low blood pressure. Compare anaphylactic shock, cardiogenic shock, hypovolemic shock.
- the physiological effect produced by the passage of an electric current through the body.
- shocks, Informal. shock absorbers, especially in the suspension of an automobile.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- to undergo a shock.
shock
2[ shok ]
noun
- a group of sheaves of grain placed on end and supporting one another in the field.
verb (used with object)
- to make into shocks.
shock
3[ shok ]
noun
- a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
- Also shock dog. a dog with long, shaggy hair.
adjective
- shaggy, as hair.
shock
1/ ʃɒk /
noun
- a number of sheaves set on end in a field to dry
- a pile or stack of unthreshed corn
verb
- tr to set up (sheaves) in shocks
shock
2/ ʃɒk /
noun
- a thick bushy mass, esp of hair
adjective
- rare.bushy; shaggy
shock
3/ ʃɒk /
verb
- to experience or cause to experience extreme horror, disgust, surprise, etc
the atrocities shocked us
she shocks easily
- to cause a state of shock in (a person)
- to come or cause to come into violent contact; jar
noun
- a sudden and violent jarring blow or impact
- something that causes a sudden and violent disturbance in the emotions
the shock of her father's death made her ill
- pathol a state of bodily collapse or near collapse caused by circulatory failure or sudden lowering of the blood pressure, as from severe bleeding, burns, fright, etc
- pathol pain and muscular spasm as the physical reaction to an electric current passing through the body
shock
/ shŏk /
- An instance of the passage of an electric current through the body. The amount of injury caused by electric shock depends on the type and strength of the current, the length of time the current is applied, and the route the current takes once it enters the body.
- A life-threatening condition marked by a severe drop in blood pressure, resulting from serious injury or illness.
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Derived Forms
- ˈshockable, adjective
- ˌshockaˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- shocka·ble adjective
- shocka·bili·ty noun
- shocked·ness noun
- shocklike adjective
- unshock·a·bili·ty noun
- un·shocka·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
Citizens were watching in shock from above on the subway station.
But fans still feel the death was a last-minute decision made for shock value rather than to serve the story.
Shock at what the government considers dangerous and high risk could be read across social media.
She lost control of her bladder as she crouched in a corner, shaking, and unable to move her body due to the shock.
Some were silent from shock, others giddy and smiling as they boarded the U.S. Air Force C-130s.
Like an electric shock, the well-known chords of the Tragala aroused his hearers—every one crowded round the singer.
The violent shock dazed Malcolm for a second, but all might yet have been well were it not for an unavoidable accident.
She was a woman of too much natural and acquired poise to remain askew under any shock.
He feared to shock her by the sudden mention of the Senora's death; yet that would harm her less than continued anxiety.
Were he a young man, they could save him by cutting off his leg high up, but as it is he would not stand the shock.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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