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  1. noun A violent collision or impact; a heavy blow. See Synonyms at collision.
  2. noun The effect of such a collision or blow.
  3. noun Something that jars the mind or emotions as if with a violent unexpected blow.
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  • Only mud and yet still the shock was almost too much. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
  • He clutched his forehead, indicating that the shock was about to kill him. —  148 - The Terrible Stork
  • Such a shock will be the explosion of a small quantity of nitro approximately half a mile from here, which I will arrange A hideous laugh gurgled from the lips of the cowled figure who had murdered Tug so callously Aunt Nora Boston's home is directly above this cache of explosive! —  009 - The Czar of Fear
  • But what came as a shock was the revelation that Parveen has slapped Emraan quite a few times for kissing on-screen, during trial shows of the concerned movies. —  Screen News
  • What has come as a shock is the negative growth of three percent in the country's crude oil production in July, as compared to a growth rate of 0.9 percent in the last corresponding month. —  India eNews
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shock:   shocking ·  shocks ·  shocked
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. French choc, from choquer, to collide with, from Old French chuquier, perhaps of Germanic origin.
  2. Middle English shok.

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  1. Formerly also chock (from French choc); from Middle English *schok (found only in the verb), from Middle Dutch schock, Dutch schok = Old High German scoc, Middle High German schoc, a shock, jolt (later Old French (and F.) choc = Spanish Portuguese choque, a shock, = Italian cicoco, a block, stump); apparently from Anglo-Saxon scacan, sceacan, etc., shake: see shake. The varied forms of the verb (shock, later shog, later jog, also shuck) suggest a confusion of two words. The English noun may be from the verb.
  2. from Middle English schokken, from Middle Dutch schocken, Dutch schokken = Middle Low German schocken = Middle High German schocken (later F. choquer), shock, jolt; from the noun. Cf. shog, jog, shuck.
  3. from Middle English schokke, a shock, from M D. schocke = Middle Low German schok, a shock, cock, heap, = Middle High German schoche, heap of grain, aheap, =Swedish skock, a crowd, heap, herd; prob. the same as Old Saxon scok = Dutch schok = Middle Low German schok = Middle High German schoc, German schock = Swedish skock = Danish skok, threescore, another particular use of the orig. sense, ‘a heap’; perhaps orig. a heap ‘shocked’ or thrown together, ult. from shock (cf. sheaf, ult. from shove). Cf. shook.
  4. from Middle English schokken = Middle Dutch schocken = Middle Low German schocken = Middle High German schochen, heap together in shocks; from the noun.
  5. Early modern English also shog, also shough, showghe; usually regarded as a variant of shag; but phonetic considerations are against this assumption, except as to shog: see shag.
 

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