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shock
  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.
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    1. “It took me a while to get over the shock that I had just been laid off from the company that I had been loyal to for years.”
      “I had a genuine shock when I discovered what my son had done to my car.”
      “He collapsed onto the floor to absorb the shock of the impact.”
shock
  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.
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    1. “It took me a while to get over the shock that I had just been laid off from the company that I had been loyal to for years.”
      “I had a genuine shock when I discovered what my son had done to my car.”
      “He collapsed onto the floor to absorb the shock of the impact.”
shocker
  1. (colloquial) One who or that which shocks or startles.
  2. A device for giving electric shocks.
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    1. “It's the latest shocker in a whirlwind romance that has been kind of hard to keep up with.”
      “The idea that drugs designed to fight depression and prevent suicide could potentially make things worse for some kids was a shocker.”
      “But the tell-all book that has the nation's capital abuzz these days is another shocker.”
shockvertising
  1. Advertising that is intended to shock the viewer.
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    1. “So-called shockvertising, in the form of ads that are deliberately provocative to draw attention to themselves, is becoming increasingly popular.”
shockability
  1. The condition of being shockable; the capacity to be shocked.
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    1. “Some people have written that our work has a shockability value, but I never think that is the case.”
      “Curiously enough, women seldom show any signs of timidity or shockability on the battlefield.”
      “This value is the shock characteristic or shockability of the suspension assembly.”
shocking
  1. The application of an electric shock.
shockingness
  1. The state or quality of being shocking.
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    1. “The political order, in which the shockingness of a world which makes no special place for us can be openly confessed to, is a rare achievement.”
      “In novel after novel, he shows us a naïve, good man wandering through a bad world, which, as he tries to make sense of it, reveals itself in all its hilarious shockingness.”
shockee
  1. One who is shocked.
shockings
  1. plural of shocking
shockers
  1. plural of shocker
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    1. “If you want to see the absolute shockers that we share this beautiful country with then you cannot ignore it.”
      “These shockers should have thought of that before they bombed us, shouldn't they?”
      “At the other end of the spectrum, there are some shockers, horrors and a couple of real nightmares.”
shockees
  1. plural of shockee
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