meaning of shock
1. 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.
2. A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
3. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
4. To be occupied with making shocks.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
10. To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
11. To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
12. A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
13. A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
14. Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
15. a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body; "subjects received a small electric shock when they mae the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional
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Related Words
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