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shell shock
(figuratively) A stunning shock.
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" […] Think of me / With all these psychic shell shocks — first the war, / Its great emotions, then this Elenor."
A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle; it is not a current diagnosis in medicine, but it corresponds largely with the current diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
(colloquial) A person with the condition.
To stun or debilitate as by a shock.
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