Definition of Shock

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Definition of Shock

Shock

To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.

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.

A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

To be occupied with making shocks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.

A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

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Shock Quotations

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
Bill Gates

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
Dennis Miller

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James A. Baldwin

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
Sarah Silverman

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Shock Translations

shock in Afrikaans is skok
shock in Danish is ryste
shock in Dutch is opschudden, schokken, schudden
shock in Finnish is pudistaa
shock in French is choquons, offusquer, choquez, choquer, secouer
shock in Italian is scandalizzare, crollo
shock in Portuguese is choque
shock in Spanish is shock, impacto, estremezo

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