1. Giving offence to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
   "the most shocking book of its time";
   - disgraceful, scandalous, shameful
    
2. Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
   "shocking details of the accident";
   - lurid

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: immoral, sensational

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: Shocking