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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Ghastly :: Ghastly (superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
Terrify :: Terrify (v. t.) To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.
Intershock :: Intershock (v. t.) To shock mutually.
Heartstruck :: Heartstruck (a.) Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken..
Fright :: Fright (n.) To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.
Shock :: Shock (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence..
Seismography :: Seismography (n.) The art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.
Shock :: Shock (v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
Thrave :: Thrave (n.) Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook..
Dynamite :: Dynamite (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition..
Heartstricken :: Heartstricken (a.) Shocked; dismayed.
Rug-headed :: Rug-headed (a.) Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
Shocking :: Shocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoc.
Squasher :: Squash (n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies..
Hideous :: Hideous (a.) Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks..
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..
Shock :: Shock (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
Pooping :: Pooping (n.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.
Shock :: 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..
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..
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