shock
/ʃɔk/ verb C2- To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook. · to shock rye
He/she/it shocks · Past shocked · Past participle shocked · -ing form shocking
Verb forms
- Base form
- shock
- He/she/it
- shocks
- Past
- shocked
- Past participle
- shocked
- -ing form
- shocking
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She drew a long breath and flung her head up proudly, courage and determination tingling over her like an electric shock.
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.
Darcy, it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that you knew to my disadvantage in Hertfordshire--and, give me leave to say, very impolitic too--for it is provoking me to retaliate, and such things may come out as will shock your relations to hear.”
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.
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