shock absorber

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.