Crossword-Solution: SHOCK
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| Shock | n. | 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. |
| Shock | n. | A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. |
| Shock | v. t. | To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye. |
| Shock | v. i. | To be occupied with making shocks. |
| Shock | n. | 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. |
| Shock | n. | 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. |
| Shock | n. | 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. |
| Shock | n. | 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. |
| Shock | v. | To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence. |
| Shock | v. | To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates. |
| Shock | v. i. | To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. |
| Shock | n. | A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog. |
| Shock | n. | A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair. |
| Shock | a. | Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHOCK | anagram | HOCKS |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SHOCK (5)
And Emil, who had so often imagined the shock of this first kiss, was surprised at its gentleness and naturalness.
The government applied shock therapy in 1990 under an IMF standby program that provides tight control over monetary expansion, a freeze on wages, the pegging of the dinar to the deutsche mark, and a partial price freeze on energy, transportation, and communal services.
Reaching home he quietly unharnessed the horse and came indoors, as we have seen, to the fearful shock that awaited him.
Being yanked out of hack mode (see {priority interrupt}) may be experienced as a physical shock, and the sensation of being in it is more than a little habituating.
This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner.
Quotes with SHOCK (3)
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
LIFE IS LIKE ELECTRICITY, ANYONE CAN SHOCK YOU
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 50 times in crossword archives (1959–2023).