Shock is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHOCK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to outrage feelings
• cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset
• offend the moral feelings of; outrage
• experience outrage
• affect with physiological shock, or with an electric shock
• collide violently
• arrange (sheaves of grain) in a shock
• horrify, disgust, or astonish
• To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
• To be occupied with making shocks.
• 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.
• surprise greatly; knock someone\'s socks off
• strike with disgust or revulsion
• strike with horror or terror
• collect or gather into shocks
• subject to electrical shocks
• inflict a trauma upon
NOUN:
• a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience
• a feeling of disturbed surprise resulting from a sudden upsetting event
• a disturbance causing instability in an economy
• an acute medical condition associated with a fall in blood pressure, caused by such events as loss of blood, severe burns, allergic reaction, or sudden emotional stress, and marked by cold, pallid skin, irregular breathing, rapid pulse, and dilated pupils
• a violent shaking movement caused by an impact, explosion, or tremor
• a group of twelve sheaves of grain placed upright and supporting each other to allow the grain to dry and ripen.
• an unkempt or thick mass of hair
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
• the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
• a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
• (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
• an instance of agitation of the earth\'s crust
• an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
• a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
• a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
• a sudden jarring impact
• a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
• sudden violent emotional disturbance
ADJECTIVE:
• Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
• bushy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to strike with great surprise, horror, or disgust

Words related to SHOCK

shockability26 shockable20 shocked17 shocking18 shocks15

Words that contain SHOCK

shocks15 shocked17 shocker16 shockers17 shocking18 antishock18 foreshock21 shockable20 unshocked19 woodshock22 aftershock22 antishocks19 foreshocks22 shellshock22 shockingly23 shockproof24 shockstall19 woodshocks23 aftershocks23 shellshocks23 shockheaded25 shockstalls20 unshockable22 electroshock23 shellshocked25 shockability26 shockingness22 electroshocks24 shockumentary27 shockabilities25 shockingnesses24 shockumentaries26

How to use SHOCK in a sentence

• Our time passed quickly till, about the middle of the day, we were startled by a shock which, as I thought, must be due to our having run aground or struck against a rock.
• Their masculine figures, their ungainly gestures, their loud and sudden laughter, even when walking alone, and their general coarseness, shocks, and must shock.
• To Esther, whose mind was saturated with the idea of God as the author of chastenings, the possibility came with a shock of joy.
• Dickie staggered physically from the shock of her speech.
• She embraced him, and the sudden, violent, unfamiliar contact sent such a shock through him that he all but forgot the deep game he was playing.
• That this repose is to suffer no shock during my official term, if I have power to avert it, those who placed me here may be assured.
• The shock of surprise that this cruel conviction brought with it held him rooted to the spot for an instant.
• The shock was no slight one, but she struggled to her feet, and heard, as she tore the covering from her head, a report as of a pistol shot.
• When she had deposited herself a man in a rabbit-skin cap, and with a red handkerchief tucked into his belt, held the cup of ale over the top of the shock for her to drink.
• He discovered that one day, with a shock, in the midst of a transaction in the harness business.
• The shock was a very terrible one to her, for she was too old to begin the world afresh.
• After our first shock at the sight of these robbers, we used some measures to lessen the number of them.
• The object of assault receives the unsubstantial thrust without a shock, only exposing the want of solidity in the implement of war.
• A shock like this brings with it also a shock of new knowledge and appreciation of things.
• Lucy for a moment shrank back from such a countenance, and the shock of disappointment chilled the warmth with which she had been prepared to receive him.
• A mechanical shock, a chemical or an electrical shock will develop nervous energy.
• The pang of disappointment is all the greater when he sees that the tooth of time and the shock of earthquake have done but little harm.
• Alwynn had brought home Ruth, quite overwhelmed for the time by the shock of the first real trouble she had known, Mrs.
• Another objection of a much more serious kind was that the amputation of the tip acts as a shock.
• With the thrill, perhaps, there was a slight shock.
• Also it must be remembered that children very easily succumb to shock.
• The event was so great, the shock was so severe, that from that day to this France has continued to reel and rock from the blow.
• The first shock came as soon as he had taken his place in the class and the first lesson had begun.
• Whatever happened later, when this stunned sense of shock had left her, she must not seem to take them seriously now, with his watching eyes upon her.
• Shock may cause death if not treated promptly, even though the injuries which brought on shock might not be serious enough to cause death.
• This, scene was repeated at other houses of the wealthy, the families too fearful of another shock to venture within doors.
• And it is a great shock to me, as you will understand when I tell you all.
• When she extended to Vaudrey her little hand, covered with rings, and indolent and soft, he felt as if he had received an electric shock and that his marrow had been touched.
• But it was now necessary to see her mother who might also be undergoing a shock.

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