1642 Birth, Life, Death, Wil, & Epit. Iack Puffe 1 The women did..quake, As did the people in old Æsops time, At the shockt mount, when forth a Mouse did clime.

1912 Proc. 6th Ann. Meeting Amer. Gas Inst. 1911 i. 134 The difference in the condensates from this shocked gas would be, it was supposed, the loss in passing through the washer scrubber.

1962 E. M. Shoemaker in Z. Kopol Physics & Astron. Moon viii. 317 Part of the kinetic energy of the meteorite engulfed by shock is converted to internal energy in the meteorite, and part is transferred as kinetic and internal energy to the shocked rock ahead of the meteorite.

1989 Science 24 Nov. 1007/1 The second criterion of thermal shock is the presence of occasional thermally shocked rock fragments.

2016 P. Clavin & G. Searby Combustion Waves & Fronts Flows iv. 219 The pressure and density of the shocked fluid is larger than the initial fluid.

1721 Some Observ. conc. Plague 17 He adds, that if at any time he found himself somewhat shocked,..in such a Case he refreshed his spirits with three of four Draughts of Wine.

1799 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales (ed. 2) II. 544 ‘Put it out of my sight,’ cried he, in a low, shocked voice.

1840 Queen Victoria Let. 21 Jan. in B. Connell Regina v. Palmerston (1962) i. 20 A letter..which she has kept near three years, she is shocked to say.

1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 692/1 Agnes put on a shocked face.

1935 N. Marsh & H. Jellett Nursing-home Murder xii. 187 I hope you were not very shocked at what my gentleman-friend said?

1995 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 12 July 60 Police..handcuffed him in front of shocked onlookers, and led him off to a cell.

2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) iv. 81 There was a moment of shocked silence.

1879 J. D. Reid Telegr. in Amer. ii. 11 In describing the effect produced upon him by one of these experiments, Muschenbrœk, the shocked philosopher, writes, ‘That he felt himself struck on his arms, shoulders and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two days before he recovered from the blow and the terror!’.

1914 Pop. Mech. Feb. 230/3 In an incident of this kind the head of the shocked person should be raised, as otherwise the pressure on the brain would further increase.

1950 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 107 93/1 They found improvement in mental patients, particularly dysthymic ones, when plasma and serum of previously shocked patients were intravenously injected.

2022 J. Raffensperger Deadly Blue Diamond 128 The shocked heart stood still, then contracted once, stopped, and began a steady rhythm.

1887 Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic 19 Feb. 236/2 If the patient is shocked, there is no better treatment than pouring hot water through the abdominal cavity.

1954 G. P. Gladstone in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxv. 460 Manwaring..obtained shock in normal dogs by injecting them with the blood from the liver of shocked animals.

2006 A. J. Pollard & S. Nadel in M. Frosch & M. C. J. Maiden Handbk. Meningococcal Dis. xxii. 497 Placement of a urinary catheter is an important part of the emergency management of shocked children, as urine output is a sensitive index of end-organ perfusion.

1963 T. E. Bunch & A. J. Cohen in Science 18 Oct. 380/3 The term shocked quartz is presented here to describe highly deformed quartz that has ruptured in response to high pressure developed by meteorite impact, or possibly by other shock mechanisms.

2014 E. Kolbert Sixth Extinction iv. 80 Under high magnification, shocked quartz exhibits what look like scratch marks, the result of bursts of high pressure that deform the crystal structure. Shocked quartz was first noted at nuclear test sites and subsequently found in the immediate vicinity of impact craters.

1886 Evening Standard 3 July 1/1 How does he do it? we ask ourselves amusedly, shockedly, warily, and enviously a dozen times a week.

1963 D. Hughes in M. Sissons & P. French Age of Austerity 93 Then, rather shockedly, a knight's name figured in court.

1999 ¡Tex! (Writer's Garret) Fall–Winter 12/2 in Duncanville (Texas) Today 11 Nov. The older man then shockedly replied, ‘This isn't Angela Davis.’

1872 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 478 All that this much comes to is a rather impotent expression of Whig shockedness.

1895 L. Clifford Flash of Summer xxvi ‘Perhaps you will come into the dining-room, sir,’ Elizabeth said, with a little air of shockedness at Mr. Belcher's manner.

2015 A. Wilson Puppy Power ii. 21 Mum's face was going from frowning not-suredness through to shockedness and puzzledness.

a1861 A. H. Clough Lett. & Remains (1865) 42 And glimmering grain Standing or shocked through the thick hedge espied.

1884 St. James's Gaz. 22 Aug. 14/2 Fields of shocked or stooked corn.