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What does shock mean?

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Noun
  1. Sudden, heavy impact.
    1. (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
    2. Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
    3. Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
    4. A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
  2. (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
Verb
  1. To cause to be emotionally shocked.
  2. To give an electric shock.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
Noun
  1. An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
  2. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
  3. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)
  4. (obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
Verb
  1. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
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