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The Meaning of shock
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(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.
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(n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
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(v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
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(v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
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(v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
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(v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
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(n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
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(n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
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(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