shock

Meaning

Noun

1. A sudden, heavy impact.
2. A sudden, heavy impact.
3. A sudden, heavy impact.
4. A sudden, heavy impact.
5. A sudden, heavy impact.
6. A sudden, heavy impact.
7. A sudden, heavy impact.
8. A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
9. A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
10. A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.

Adj

Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.

Verb

1. To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
2. To give an electric shock to.
3. To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
4. (obsolete) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
5. To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
6. 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.

Verb

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɒk/

Etymology

From 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.
Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.

Sentences

Septic shock can also arise .