1. shock - Noun
2. shock - Adjective
3. shock - Verb
5. Shock - Proper 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.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryObscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. Bertrand Russell
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. F. H. Bradley
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
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. Terry Southern
When the reason is known, there will be no more shock. Arabic Proverb
A shock dog is starved and nobody believes it. Spanish Proverb