shock

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A sudden, heavy impact.

   “The train hit the buffers with a great shock.”

2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A sudden, heavy impact.
3. (countable, uncountable)A sudden, heavy impact.

   “A tremendous shock arises when a secret is discovered.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A sudden, heavy impact.

   “But as was the case with pacemakers, external defibrillators were unwieldy, and the shocks they delivered—in the rare cases when patients were still conscious—were painful.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A sudden, heavy impact.

   “Fans were in shock in the days following the singer's death.”

   “". . . Maureen, I don't feel sad. I don't feel anything. What's wrong with me?" "Nothing, Cae," she said. "You just haven't been able to take it in yet. Absorb the shock of it."”

6. (countable, uncountable)A sudden, heavy impact.
7. (countable, uncountable)A sudden, heavy impact.

   “Several reflected shocks enter the bomb core in rapid succession, each helping to compress it to its maximum density.”

8. (countable, uncountable)A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).

   “If your truck's been riding rough, it might need new shocks.”

   “We're bonin' on the dark blocks / Wearin' out the shocks, wettin' up the dashboard clock”

   “At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.”

9. (countable, uncountable)A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
10. (countable, uncountable)A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.

    “The warehouse that caught fire contained 99% trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) – used to make chlorinated tablets to control bacteria and algae – and 99% dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA), which is used to make swimming pool shock – a treatment used to help break down contaminants.”

11. An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.

    “Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.”

    “Behind the Master walks, builds up the Shocks.”

12. (dated)A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
13. (broadly)A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.

    “His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.”

    “Every now and then I’m startled at how good-looking John is, but he glared at me from under the shock of hair that fell across his brow and scared me a little.”

    “On day three I pointed at the edge of an intricate pentagram peeking above her shock of oily black hair.”

14. (obsolete)A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

    “When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.

   “His shock announcement rocked the tennis world.”

verb

1. (transitive)To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.

   “The disaster shocked the world.”

2. (transitive)To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.
3. (transitive)To give an electric shock to.
4. (transitive)To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.

   “Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked.”

5. (intransitive, obsolete)To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.

   “They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.”

6. (transitive)To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
7. (transitive)To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.

   “It takes more than two gigapascals (two billion pascals) of pressure to shock quartz in this manner (for comparison, the atmosphere at sea level exerts a little over 100,000 pascals of pressure).”

8. (transitive)To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

   “to shock rye”

name

1. A surname.