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Adjective: shocked  shókt
  1. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation
    "The union was shocked at the news that up to 1500 jobs were to be lost";
    - aghast, appalled, dismayed
Verb: shock  shók
  1. Greatly surprise
    "I was shocked when I heard that I was promoted";
    - floor, blow out of the water, take aback
     
  2. Strike with disgust or revulsion
    "The scandalous behaviour of this married woman shocked her friends";
    - offend, scandalize, scandalise [Brit], appal [Brit, Cdn], appall [US], outrage
     
  3. Strike with horror or terror
    "The news of the bombing shocked her"
     
  4. Inflict a trauma upon
    "The accident shocked his nervous system";
    - traumatize, traumatise [Brit]
     
  5. Subject to electrical shocks
    "The researchers shocked the lab rats to study their behaviour"
     
  6. Collide violently
    "The two cars shocked into each other at the intersection"
     
  7. Collect or gather into shocks
    "shock grain"

See also: afeard [archaic], afeared [archaic], afraid, 'fraid [non-standard]

Type of: alarm, appal [Brit, Cdn], appall [US], care for, clash, collect, collide, disgust, dismay, garner, gather, horrify, injure, nauseate, pull together, revolt, sicken, surprise, treat, wound

Encyclopedia: Shocked, Michelle

Shock, The closed door