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Is shock a Scrabble word?

Yes, shock is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 14 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of shock?

Definition

noun (English)

1. A sudden, heavy impact.Synonyms: amazement, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, flabbergast, flabbergastation, flabbergastment, shockcountablefigurativelyuncountable

2. A sudden, heavy impact.Examples: "A tremendous shock arises when a secret is discovered."countableuncountable

3. A sudden, heavy impact.Examples: "But as was the case with pacemakers, external defibrillators were unwieldy, and the shocks they delivered—in the rare cases when patients were still conscious—were painful."countableuncountable

4. A sudden, heavy impact.Examples: "Fans were in shock in the days following the singer's death."; "". . . Maureen, I don't feel sad. I don't feel anything. What's wrong with me?" "Nothing, Cae," she said. "You just haven't been able to take it in yet. Absorb the shock of it.""countableuncountable

5. A sudden, heavy impact.countableuncountable

6. A sudden, heavy impact.Examples: "Several reflected shocks enter the bomb core in rapid succession, each helping to compress it to its maximum density."countableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.Examples: "The disaster shocked the world."Synonyms: shattertransitive

2. (transitive) To give an electric shock to.transitive

3. (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.Examples: "Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked."transitive

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.Examples: "They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together."intransitiveobsolete

5. (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.transitive

6. (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.Examples: "It takes more than two gigapascals (two billion pascals) of pressure to shock quartz in this manner (for comparison, the atmosphere at sea level exerts a little over 100,000 pascals of pressure)."transitive

noun (English)

1. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.dated

2. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.Examples: "His head boasted a shock of sandy hair."; "Every now and then I’m startled at how good-looking John is, but he glared at me from under the shock of hair that fell across his brow and scared me a little."; "On day three I pointed at the edge of an intricate pentagram peeking above her shock of oily black hair."Synonyms: mopbroadly

3. (obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.Examples: "When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)"obsolete

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.Examples: "to shock rye"transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "shock"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "shock"?

Scrabble
14 points
S1
H4
O1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
14 points
S1
H3
O1
C4
K5

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