A shock is the uncomfortable feeling you get when an electric current passes through your body. If you stick your finger in an outlet, you'll get an unpleasant shock.
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook;
Noun
a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body; "subjects received a small electric shock when they mae the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks"
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the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat; "the armies met in the shock of battle"
Noun
a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses; "the old car needed a new set of shocks"
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an unpleasant or disappointing surprise; "it came as a shock to learn that he was injured"
Noun
an instance of agitation of the earth''s crust; "the first shock of the earthquake came shortly after noon while workers were at lunch"
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the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; "his mother''s deathleft him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock"
Noun
a bushy thick mass (especially hair); "he had an unruly shock of black hair"
Noun
a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field; "corn is bound in small sheeves and several sheeves are set up together in shocks"; "whole fields of wheat in shock"
Noun
(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; "loss of blood is an important cause of shock"
Verb
inflict a trauma upon
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subject to electrical shocks
Verb
collect or gather into shocks; "shock grain"
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collide violently
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strike with horror or terror; "The news of the bombing shocked her"
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surprise greatly; knock someone''s socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
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strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
n.
A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or
the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve
to sixteen; a stook.
n.
A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some
Baltic ports to loose goods.
v. t.
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook;
as, to shock rye.
v. i.
To be occupied with making shocks.
n.
A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow,
collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a
concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
n.
A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of
pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also,
a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
n.
A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body,
or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the
nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
n.
The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with
the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the
animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
v.
To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to
strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
v.
To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to
cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
v. i.
To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
n.
A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
n.
A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock
of sandy hair.
a.
Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
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Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace.
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These strong, unshaken mounds resist the shocks Of tides and seas tempestuous.
He stood the shock of a whole host of foes.2.
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Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them.
A shall never forget the force with which he shocked De Vipont.2.
Advise him not to shock a father's will.
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His red shock peruke . . . was laid aside.
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook;
To be occupied with making shocks.
A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also
Bushy; shaggy;
Usage Examples
I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
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Other Usage ExamplesI've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
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