The Meaning of shock

• (n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
• (n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
• (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
• (v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
• (n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
• (n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
• (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
• (n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
• (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
• (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
• (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
• (n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
• (n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
• (a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Synonyms

stupefaction , grogginess , shock absorber , electrical shock , jounce , semiconsciousness , jar , cushion , fog , electric shock , haze , stupor , impact , seismic disturbance , blow , daze , jolt , encroachment , wallop , impingement , nose candy , reversal , bump , setback , snow , black eye , reverse , puff , gust , coke , blast , jarful , jerk , saccade , jerking , knock down , blow out of the water , dump , deck , appall , outrage , scandalise , appal , scandalize , ball over , traumatize , coldcock , offend , traumatise , floor , take aback , dishonour , ravish , profane , dishonor , desecrate , spite , transgress , injure , wound , break , horrify , alarm , dismay , hurt , breach , rape , violate , infract , assault , bruise , go against , pique , box , concussion , disaster , misfortune , stripe , buffet , cuff , knock , rap , stroke , calamity , cut , lash , thump , surprise

Homophones

schaack , schoch , shaak

Rhymes

ad-hoc , adcock , aftershock , airlock , alcock , antiknock , antilock , antioch , baack , bach , balk , ballcock , bangkok , barach , baulk , bedrock , bloc , bloch , block , blok , boardwalk , boch , bock , bohlke , bok , broc , brock , calk , catwalk , caulk , chalk , chock , chok , clock , cloque , cock , comstock , cornstalk , croc , crock , crosstalk , crosswalk , deadlock , doc , dock , eisenach , elcock , electroshock , erlach , estok , falk , falke , faulk , feedstock , flintlock , floc , flock , frock , fyock , gamecock , gawk , glock , gocke , gohlke , goshawk , gridlock , groch , haack , haacke , haak , hammerlock , hamrock , hancock , hassebrock , hauck , hauk , hauke , havelock , hawk , hawke , haycock , hemlock , hitchcock , hoc , hoch , hock , hollyhock , interlock , iraq , jacques , jaywalk , jock , kilmarnock , kloc , klock , klocke , knaack , knaak , knock , kock , kok , kroc , krock , krok , kwok , laack , laake , landlock , lauck , laughingstock , laycock , leacock , livestock , loch , lock , locke , maack , mach , madlock , manioc , maroc , matchlock , mauck , mauk , maycock , moch , mock , mohawk , mok , nighthawk , nock , norwalk , oarlock , och , overstock , padlock , pathak , peacock , ploch , plock , poch , pock , poppycock , reichenbach , restock , roadblock , roc , roch , rock , rocke , rocque , salk , sauk , schaack , schalk , schlock , schoch , shaak , shamrock , shedlock , sherlock , shrock , shylock , sidewalk , skok , skroch , sleepwalk , smock , sock , sok , spock , spurlock , squawk , staack , stalk , stock , stocke , stokke , strock , talk , tock , tomahawk , toque , undock , unlock , vlok , vocke , waack , walk , walke , warloeck , wedlock , woodcock , woodstock , yeosock , zoch , zwack