shock
shock is a 5-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
- transitive verb. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
- intransitive verb. To be occupied with making shocks.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- verb. To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
- verb. To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
- intransitive verb. To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
- noun. A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
- noun. A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
- adjective. Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
- noun. a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
"subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response"
"electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks"
- noun. the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
"the armies met in the shock of battle"
- noun. a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
"the old car needed a new set of shocks"
- noun. an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
"it came as a shock to learn that he was injured"
- noun. a sudden jarring impact
"the door closed with a jolt"
"all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers"
- noun. an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
"the first shock of the earthquake came shortly after noon while workers were at lunch"
- noun. the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
"his mother's death left him in a daze"
"he was numb with shock"
- noun. a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
"he had an unruly shock of black hair"
- noun. a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
"corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"
"whole fields of wheat in shock"
- noun. (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
"loss of blood is an important cause of shock"
- verb. inflict a trauma upon
- verb. subject to electrical shocks
- verb. collect or gather into shocks
"shock grain"
- verb. collide violently
- verb. strike with horror or terror
"The news of the bombing shocked her"
- verb. surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
"I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
- verb. strike with disgust or revulsion
"The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
Synonyms
impact, cushion, blow, jar, jolt, jounce, daze, stupor, traumatise, traumatize, floor, appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize
Anagrams
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Common word forms
shocks, shocked, shocker, shocking, shockable
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