Overview of verb shock

The verb shock has 7 senses

• shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback -- (surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted")


• shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage -- (strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends")


• shock -- (strike with horror or terror; "The news of the bombing shocked her")


• shock -- (collide violently)


• shock -- (collect or gather into shocks; "shock grain")


• shock -- (subject to electrical shocks)


• traumatize, traumatise, shock -- (inflict a trauma upon)

Overview of adj shocking

The adj shocking has 2 senses

• lurid, shocking -- (glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident")


• disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking -- (giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time")