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▸ noun: (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
▸ noun: (psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
▸ noun: (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
▸ noun: (psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
▸ noun: (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
▸ noun: (physics) A shock wave.
▸ noun: (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
▸ noun: (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
▸ noun: A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
▸ adjective: Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
▸ verb: (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
▸ verb: (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ noun: An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
▸ noun: (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
▸ noun: (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
▸ verb: (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
take aback,
appall,
daze,
stun,
traumatize,
outrage,
scandalize,
offend,
concussion,
stupor,
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electric,
first,
septic,
great,
severe,
cardiogenic,
initial,
anaphylactic,
sudden,
hemorrhagic,
hypovolemic
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