shock
/ʃɔk/ sustantivo A2En español: pasmo, shock, anonadación, anonadamiento
- A sudden, heavy impact. · The train hit the buffers with a great shock.
- Something so surprising that it is stunning. · My mother's news was a shock I still haven't recovered from.
- A sudden or violent emotional disturbance. · Carl had a shock at what he found.
- An experience that leaves someone shaken; a very surprising, exhilarating or amazing experience. · The surprising blast of cold water on my face was a tremendous shock.
- Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal. · We gave him a couple shocks, but the patient passed away anywway.
- The stimulation of nerves and convulsive contraction of muscles caused by electrical current flowing through a body.
- A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli. · Fans were in shock in the days following the singer's death.· The shock she felt kept her in a daze the rest of the day.
- Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements. · Call an ambulance, he's in shock!
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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.
At this moment the boat came to a landing with a violent shock.
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 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.
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