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shock
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shock 1  (shk)
n.
1.
a. A violent collision or impact; a heavy blow. See Synonyms at collision.
b. The effect of such a collision or blow.
2.
a. Something that jars the mind or emotions as if with a violent unexpected blow.
b. The disturbance of function, equilibrium, or mental faculties caused by such a blow; violent agitation.
3. A severe offense to one's sense of propriety or decency; an outrage.
4. A potentially fatal physiological reaction to a variety of conditions, including illness, injury, hemorrhage, and dehydration, usually characterized by marked loss of blood pressure, diminished blood circulation, and inadequate blood flow to the tissues.
5. The sensation and muscular spasm caused by an electric current passing through the body or a body part.
6. A sudden economic disturbance, such as a rise in the price of a commodity.
7. A shock absorber.
v. shocked, shock·ing, shocks
v.tr.
1. To strike with great surprise and emotional disturbance.
2. To strike with disgust; offend.
3. To induce a state of physical shock in (a person).
4. To subject (an animal or person) to an electric shock.
v.intr.
To come into contact violently, as in battle; collide.

[French choc, from choquer, to collide with, from Old French chuquier, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

shock 2  (shk)
n.
1. A number of sheaves of grain stacked upright in a field for drying.
2. A thick heavy mass: a shock of white hair.
tr.v. shocked, shock·ing, shocks
To gather (grain) into shocks.

[Middle English shok.]

shock1
vb
1. to experience or cause to experience extreme horror, disgust, surprise, etc. the atrocities shocked us she shocks easily
2. to cause a state of shock in (a person)
3. to come or cause to come into violent contact; jar
n
1. a sudden and violent jarring blow or impact
2. something that causes a sudden and violent disturbance in the emotions the shock of her father's death made her ill
3. (Medicine / Pathology) 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.
[from Old French choc, from choquier to make violent contact with, of Germanic origin; related to Middle High German schoc]
shockable  adj
shockability  n

shock2
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a number of sheaves set on end in a field to dry
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a pile or stack of unthreshed corn
vb
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (tr) to set up (sheaves) in shocks
[probably of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schok shock of corn, group of sixty]

shock3
n
a thick bushy mass, esp of hair
adj
Rare bushy; shaggy
[perhaps from shock2]

shock  (shk)
1. 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.
2. A life-threatening condition marked by a severe drop in blood pressure, resulting from serious injury or illness.

Shock pile or heap of sheaves of grain, wheat, rye, etc.; a bunch or bundle of things; a crowd of people; a lot of sixty pieces.
Examples: shock of actors; of beans, 1862; of corns, 1584; of folks; of grain, 1584; of hair; of wheat, 1899.

Shock 

See Also: CAUSE/EFFECT, SURPRISE

  1. As dazed as a man who has just been told he hasn’t long to live —Françoise Sagan
  2. Felt amazed, as if the clouds had blown away, as if the bare bones were finally visible —Louise Erdrich

    In Erdrich’s novel, The Beet Queen, the amazed feeling stems from a character’s realization that he is homosexual

  3. Felt as if I was being hit by a blast from a giant hair drier —Dominique Lapierre
  4. The first shock [of English society] is like a cold plunge —Robert Louis Stevenson
  5. He was white and shaken, like a dry martini —P. G. Wodehouse
  6. (Then the familiarity of the name … ) hit him like a contract cancellation —William Beechcroft
  7. [A brutal murder] shocked me and held onto me as if I’d shaken hands with a live wire —Jonathan Valin
  8. The shock … held everybody as in a still photo —Ray Bradbury
  9. The shock hit me like a fist under the ribs —David Brierly
  10. [Time awareness] shocking a douche of cold water —P. G. Wodehouse
  11. Shocking as the realization that you’re not invincible —Elyse Sommer
  12. Shocking realization … like a fist knocking the wind out of her —David Leavitt
  13. Shock [went through room] like the twang of a bow string —Iris Murdoch
  14. The shock numbed him out like a drug —George Garrett
  15. (She can) shock you like a lightning bolt at high noon —Aharon Megged
  16. Stunned … as if a good boxer had just caught me with a startling left hook and a stultifying right —Norman Mailer
  17. The sudden shock striking somewhere inside her chest like an electric bolt —William Styron

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