shock
To cause to be emotionally shockedTo cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.
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» Tom was shocked by what happened.
Тома шокувало те, що трапилося. — deniko
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Examples
1033 sentencesMeaning
9 senses(transitive)To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.
The disaster shocked the world.
schockieren
шоки́роватьšokírovatʹ, потряса́тьpotrjasátʹ
(transitive)To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.
strike with disgust or revulsion
(transitive)To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
to shock rye
collect or gather into shocks
More meanings 6
(transitive)To give an electric shock to.
einen Stromstoß versetzen
subject to electrical shocks
(transitive)To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked.
(transitive)To cook something very briefly in a hot liquid, then immediately submerge it in ice water to stop the cooking process.
Can you shock the spinach over there?
(transitive)To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
(transitive)To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
(intransitive, obsolete)To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
collide violently
Origin
From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to coFrom Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
Inherited from Middle English schok, from Old English *sċoc or Middle Low German schok; in any case, from Proto-West Germanic *skok and possibly related to Latvian kàudze and Lithuanian kiūgis.
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Forms
shocks, shocking, shocked, shockedTenses
shock · shocked · will shock · have shockedSynonyms
13 synonyms- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off:floorball overblow out of the watertake aback
- strike with disgust or revulsion:offendscandalizescandaliseappalappalloutrage
- inflict a trauma upon:traumatizetraumatise
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
11 patterns- was shocked by
- shocked by what
- was shocked when
- a little shocked
- shocked to hear
- state of shock
- was shocked to
- was in shock
- little shocked
- seemed shocked
- seemed shocked by
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.