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shock

/ʃɔk/ verb C2
  1. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook. (transitive) · to shock rye

He/she/it shocks · Past shocked · Past participle shocked · -ing form shocking

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Verb forms

Base form
shock
He/she/it
shocks
Past
shocked
Past participle
shocked
-ing form
shocking

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As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 91 · B2
At this moment the boat came to a landing with a violent shock.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 76 · C1
She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 5 · B2
The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomègue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1 · C1

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