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Definition of Shock
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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. Related Definitions:
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Shock Quotations
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. Lewis B. Smedes 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 Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. Paul Nurse 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 There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. F. H. Bradley |
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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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