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
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
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler
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
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
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell
Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
Tina Turner
I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
Hedy Lamarr
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
George W. Bush
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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