1. The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
   "he was numb with shock"
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1. Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
   - floor, ball over, 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. Collide violently 
5. Collect or gather into shocks
   "shock grain" 
6. Subject to electrical shocks 
7. Inflict a trauma upon
   - traumatize, traumatise [Brit]

Derived forms: shocks, shocking, shocked

See also: shocker

Type of: agglomerate, alarm, appal [Brit, Cdn], appall [US], blow, bump, care for, churn up, clash, collapse, collect, collide, combat, cumulation, cumulus, damper, disgust, dismay, earthquake, fight, fighting, garner, gather, heap, horrify, inborn reflex, injure, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, mass, mound, muffler, nauseate, physiological reaction, pile, prostration, pull together, quake, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, revolt, scrap, seism, sicken, stupefaction, surprise, temblor, treat, unconditioned reflex, wound

Part of: suspension, suspension system

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