shock

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sudden, upsetting, or surprising event or feeling.

   It came as a shock to learn that our favorite restaurant had closed.

2. 2
   noun

   A sudden painful feeling caused by electricity passing through the body.

   He got a small electric shock from the faulty plug.

3. 3
   verb

   To make someone feel very surprised, upset, or offended.

   The news of the bombing shocked the whole country.

Common collocations

• distributive shock Adjective + noun

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…

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