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1. shock
noun. ['ˈʃɑːk'] the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally.
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Rhymes with Shock
- hassebrock
- overstock
- interlock
- antilock
- antiknock
- restock
- bangkok
- ballcock
- unlock
- undock
- strock
- sprock
- skroch
- pathak
- o'clock
- estok
- elcock
- alcock
- ad-hoc
- adcock
- vlok
- stokke
- stocke
- stock
- staack
- srock
- spock
- smock
- skok
- shrock
Sentences with shock
1. Noun, singular or mass
At that point, the dog might go into shock, collapse and die.
Quotes about shock
1. 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
2. I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.
- Bill Plympton
3. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
4. shock
noun. ['ˈʃɑːk'] a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body.
Synonyms
5. shock
noun. ['ˈʃɑːk'] the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat.
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8. shock
noun. ['ˈʃɑːk'] (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.
