Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An earthquake; specifically, the most violent oscillations curing the continuance of an earthquake; also, the sudden movement of the ground consequent upon the intentional explosion of a mine or the accidental explosion of a magazine of explosives.
Wiktionary
- n. An earthquake.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An earthquake.
Etymologies
- earth + shock (Wiktionary)
Examples
“April 29th, 2005 doctor who request: earthshock here's a request: does anyone have a copy of "Earthshock" (yes, the one where Adric dies) such that they could either send it to me or transcribe a very small section from the end?”
“An earthshock had raised wavelets like a forest of spearpoints from the harbor's surface.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘earthshock’.
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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Tremors
Earthquake words.
sussultatory, groundswell, aftershock, brasmatias, earth-tilting, earth-tremor, teleseism, seismogram, microseism, tilt, epicenter, tsunami and 51 more...
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