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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.
5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 31 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
- 3transitive verb
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
- 4intransitive verb
To be occupied with making shocks.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
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.
- 9verb
To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
- 10verb
To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
- 11intransitive verb
To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
- 12noun
A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
- 13noun
A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
- 14adjective
Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
- 15noun
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"
- 16noun
the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
"the armies met in the shock of battle"
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- 17noun
a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
"the old car needed a new set of shocks"
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- 18noun
an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
"it came as a shock to learn that he was injured"
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- 19noun
a sudden jarring impact
"the door closed with a jolt"
"all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers"
- 20noun
an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
"the first shock of the earthquake came shortly after noon while workers were at lunch"
- 21noun
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"
- 22noun
a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
"he had an unruly shock of black hair"
- 23noun
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"
- 24noun
(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"
- 25verb
inflict a trauma upon
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- 26verb
subject to electrical shocks
- 27verb
collect or gather into shocks
"shock grain"
- 28verb
collide violently
- 29verb
strike with horror or terror
"The news of the bombing shocked her"
- 30verb
surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
"I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
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- 31verb
strike with disgust or revulsion
"The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
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