Definition of shock

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Shock (n.) 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..

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Pooping :: Pooping (n.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow..
Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
Frightful :: Frightful (a.) Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance..
Heartstrike :: Heartstrike (v. t.) To affect at heart; to shock.
Percussion :: Percussion (n.) Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
Earthshock :: Earthshock (n.) An earthquake.
Shock :: Shock (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
Terrify :: Terrify (v. t.) To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.
Horror :: Horror (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking..
Shocked :: Shocked (imp. & p. p.) of Shoc.
Stormy :: Stormy (superl.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks..
Tetanomotor :: Tetanomotor (n.) An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
Rude :: Rude (superl.) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies..
Shock-headed :: Shock-headed (a.) Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
Ghastly :: Ghastly (superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..
Brunt :: Brunt (v. t.) The force of a blow; shock; collision.
Amble :: Amble (v. i.) To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.
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