Definition of shock

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Shock (n.) 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..

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Shocked :: Shocked (imp. & p. p.) of Shoc.
Shock :: Shock (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye..
Elastic :: Elastic (a.) Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution..
Concussion :: Concussion (n.) A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain..
Intershock :: Intershock (v. t.) To shock mutually.
Ghastly :: Ghastly (superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
Heartstrike :: Heartstrike (v. t.) To affect at heart; to shock.
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
Shock :: 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..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow..
Shock :: Shock (n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
Justle :: Justle (n.) An encounter or shock; a jostle.
Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
Rug-headed :: Rug-headed (a.) Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
Preparation :: Preparation (n.) The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension..
Revolt :: Revolt (v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings..
Jog :: "Jog (v. i.) To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with over..
Shock :: Shock (n.) 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..
Shock :: Shock (a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair..
Stooked :: Stook (n.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves..
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