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shock
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Meanings
noun
  • a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience.
    E.g. it was a shock to face such hostile attitudes
  • an acute medical condition associated with a fall in blood pressure, caused by such events as loss of blood, severe burns, allergic reaction, or sudden emotional stress, and marked by cold, pallid skin, irregular breathing, rapid pulse, and dilated pupils.
    E.g. he died of shock due to massive abdominal haemorrhage
  • a violent shaking movement caused by an impact, explosion, or tremor.
    E.g. earthquake shocks
  • short for shock absorber.
verb
  • cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
    E.g. she was shocked at the state of his injuries
  • affect with physiological shock, or with an electric shock.
    E.g. if a patient is deeply shocked, measurement of blood pressure may be difficult
  • collide violently.
    E.g. carriage after carriage shocked fiercely against the engine
noun
  • a group of twelve sheaves of grain placed upright and supporting each other to allow the grain to dry and ripen.
verb
  • arrange (sheaves of grain) in a shock.
    E.g. the grain is shocked in the field after it is cut
noun
  • an unkempt or thick mass of hair.
    E.g. a man with a shock of ginger hair

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