shock
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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