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| shocking | |
| 1. adj. Inspiring shock; startling. |  |
| 2. adj. Unusually obscene or lewd. | |
| 3. adj. (colloquial) Extremely bad. | |
| What a shocking calamity! | |
| 4. n. The application of an electric shock. | |
| shock | |
| 1. n. A sudden, heavy impact. | |
| The train hit the buffers with a great shock. | |
| 2. n. (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning. | |
| 3. n. A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance. | |
| 4. n. Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal. | |
| 5. n. Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements. | |
| 6. n. (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation. | |
| 7. v. To cause to be emotionally shocked. | |
| The disaster shocked the world. | |
| 8. v. To give an electric shock to. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter. | |
| 10. n. An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook. | |
| 11. n. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. | |
| 12. n. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass. | |
| His head boasted a shock of sandy hair. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog. | |
| 14. v. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook. | |
| to shock rye | |
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