Shock
To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.
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.
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
To be occupied with making shocks.
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.
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.
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.
Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
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Shock Quotations
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James A. Baldwin
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
George W. Bush
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell
I've been on shows that go for shock value.
Daphne Zuniga
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
Tina Turner
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Neil Young
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
James Hillman
I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
Hedy Lamarr
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer
I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
Sarah Silverman
What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
Dennis Miller
It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.
Emma Stone
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
Ethel Waters
I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
Gene Tierney
Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
Nicolas Cage
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
Matt Cameron
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
Anna Freud
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
Jane Rule
I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.
Helena Bonham Carter
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Shock Translations
shock in Afrikaans is skok
shock in Danish is ryste
shock in Dutch is opschudden, schokken, schudden
shock in Finnish is pudistaa
shock in French is choquons, offusquer, choquez, choquer, secouer
shock in Italian is scandalizzare, crollo
shock in Portuguese is choque
shock in Spanish is shock, impacto, estremezo
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