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A sudden, heavy impact.

(figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.

(psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.

(medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.

(psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.

(medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.

(physics) A shock wave.

(automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).

(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.

A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.

Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.

To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.

To give an electric shock to.

To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.

(obsolete) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.

To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.

To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.

An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.

(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.

(obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.