electric shock (redirected from electric shocks)

electric shock

Noun

pain and muscular spasms caused by an electric current passing through the body

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	electric shock - the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture; "they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks" torturing, torture - the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" corporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
	2.	electric shock - trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
	3.	electric shock - a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body; "subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks" electrical shock, shock inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex - an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

Translations

electric shock n → electrochoque m

electric shock electric n → choc m or décharge f électrique

electric shock electric n → elektrischer Schlag m, Stromschlag m

electric shock n → scossa (elettrica)