Shocking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHOCKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHOCK, 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
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
ADJECTIVE:
• causing horror, disgust, or astonishment
• Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.
• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
• giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to strike with great surprise, horror, or disgust

Words related to SHOCKING

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Words that contain SHOCKING

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How to use SHOCKING in a sentence

• The shocking scene is to this day fresh in my mind, and I have often been overcome while thinking on it.
• For such a person to lose his money is to suffer the most shocking reverse, and fall from heaven to hell, from all to nothing, in a breath.
• He said that as early as he could remember he used to plan situations so that he might say things that were strange and even shocking in a child.
• I have told the shocking particulars of his death, in my description of some of the neighboring slaveholders.
• The duty is far more easy, but not less imperative, to practise the same fidelity in regard to her, now that the truth can be told of her without shocking her modesty.
• There was committed about this time, a most shocking murder, in the London district.
• Dear Sir, you remember, when Herod of Jewry Had given a ball, how a shocking old fury Demanded, so bent was the vixen on slaughter.
• And it is not any more shocking to the most devout believer than it is to people who doubt whether there be any Holy Ghost or not.
• In the case of Penrod, the surprise was complete and its effect visibly shocking.
• I am astonished that you have not heard that too, since you have picked up so many shocking stories about me and my daughters.
• Shocking as it may seem to some people, I hesitated.
• These confessions made, I have done with the past, and may now relate the events which my enemies, among the ladies, have described as presenting a shocking story.
• The words of an audacious French preacher are yet more shocking than those of the English nobleman.
• But the spectacle the most shocking to every one, who retained any sentiment either of honor or humanity, still remained.
• The thought of having a foreign woman for your niece is shocking to you.
• I have a shocking memory, and there are always points which I forget.
• It was too shocking, and she caught at the suggestion of an alternative with a gasp of relief.
• In Hilton I could remember when policemen searched vacant lots and fields on Sunday for crowds of bad boys engaged in the shocking pastime beneath secreted shade trees.
• The spectacle was not only shocking to me, it was painful.
• His understanding of love, religion, duty, patriotism, is paltry and even shocking.
• A part of the Insurgent plan of campaign was the circulation of the most shocking statements concerning the abuses committed by American soldiers.
• If this be dying, said she, there is nothing at all shocking in it.
• It was shocking to me that they should confuse that body with me.
• I am six feet in height, am of spare build, weigh 160 pounds, and have shocking taste in dress.
• But there are some things too shocking to be contemplated, even in the worst of our kind.
• The fourth sailor they found dead in the boat, mangled in the same shocking manner.
• Even they were taking part as spectators, having secured their places half an hour before the appointed time in order not to miss a moment of the shocking exhibition.
• Twenty American newspapers advocated this shocking creed.
• No suffering could ever be disgusting or shocking to Cecilia, nor ridiculous, nor grotesque.

Similar words containing SHOCK without suffix ing

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