Definitions for shocking

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shocking shock·ing

Spelling: [shok-ing]

IPA: /ˈʃɒk ɪŋ/

Shocking is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in shocking (cghiknos).

Definitions for shocking

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.

adjective

1. causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
2. very bad:

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 shocking

First recorded in 1685-95; shock¹ + -ing²

Examples for shocking

Playful and gory, the cartoonish paintings of Dee Dee Ramone, bassist for The Ramones, are every bit as shocking as their creator.

The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy.

There are some natures, I believe, which after a shock turn and flee from the shocking agent.

It was also the most shocking revelation of 2014: Beyoncé Knowles is not perfect.

It was shocking to find out that the rape by Beebe was actually the last one of the night.

Is there any better Beyoncé lyric to use in response to the most shocking celebrity tape this side of One Night in Paris?

And he had too plainly crossed North America in this shocking state!

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And to his astonishment there was none of the shocking effect of his first drink of whisky.

Ah, we Neapolitans, we may be shocking; but at least we are sincere!