Definitions for shock

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Spelling: [shok]

IPA: /ʃɒk/

Shock is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in shock (chkos).

Definitions for shock

noun

1. a sudden and violent blow or impact; collision.
2. a sudden or violent disturbance or commotion:
3. a sudden or violent disturbance of the mind, emotions, or sensibilities:
4. the cause of such a disturbance:
5. Pathology. a collapse of circulatory function, caused by severe injury, blood loss, or disease, and characterized by pallor, sweating, weak pulse, and very low blood pressure. Compare anaphylactic shock, cardiogenic shock, hypovolemic shock.
6. the physiological effect produced by the passage of an electric current through the body.
7. shocks, Informal. shock absorbers, especially in the suspension of an automobile.
8. a group of sheaves of grain placed on end and supporting one another in the field.
9. a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
10. Also, shock dog. a dog with long, shaggy hair.

adjective

1. shaggy, as hair.

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or jar with intense surprise, horror, disgust, etc.:
2. to strike against violently.
3. to give an electric shock to.
4. to make into shocks.

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo a shock.

Origin of shock

1555-65; Middle French choc armed encounter, noun derivative of choquer to clash (in battle) Germanic; compare Dutch schokken to shake, jolt, jerk

Examples for shock

Some were silent from shock, others giddy and smiling as they boarded the U.S. Air Force C-130s.

In growth all is adjusted to capacity; it is not meant to shock, force, or frighten.

shock at what the government considers dangerous and high risk could be read across social media.

Citizens were watching in shock from above on the subway station.

Even Hope's strong constitution felt the shock of this adventure.

One purpose of this introduction is to prepare the reader for such a shock.

But fans still feel the death was a last-minute decision made for shock value rather than to serve the story.

She lost control of her bladder as she crouched in a corner, shaking, and unable to move her body due to the shock.

She had a shock every time she came in and found it still there.

And with his head still turned, Andrew felt a shock and flounder.