Definitions for shell-shock

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Shell-Shock is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in shell-shock (-cehhklloss).

Definitions for shell-shock

noun

  1. battle fatigue.

Origin of shell-shock

First recorded in 1915-20

Examples for shell-shock

It wasn't the bomb that defeated us, but our own shell shock.

He wondered if she could have had a slight touch of shell shock.

Many of the refugees were suffering from what the humans referred to as 'shell shock'.

Only back then it was called “shell shock” or “battle fatigue.”

Now he has heard about shell shock as a result of a similar experience.

In the past it's been called everything from shell shock to battle fatigue.

We know so little about shell shock, so often the impossible happens.

"He's suffering from shell shock or something," Connie said.

He had been mad—he remembered the doctor saying so—In France—shell shock.

Dr. Owen thinks my trouble is shell shock, but he is mistaken.

Word Value for shell-shock
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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