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Adjective: shocked  shókt
  1. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation
    - aghast, appalled, dismayed
Verb: shock  shók
  1. Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
    "I was shocked when I heard that I was promoted"
    - floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback
     
  2. Strike with disgust or revulsion
    "The scandalous behaviour of this married woman shocked her friends"
    - offend, scandalize, scandalise [Brit], appal [Brit, Cdn], appall [US], outrage
     
  3. Strike with horror or terror
    "The news of the bombing shocked her"
     
  4. Collide violently
     
  5. Collect or gather into shocks
    "shock grain"
     
  6. Subject to electrical shocks
     
  7. Inflict a trauma upon
    - traumatize, traumatise [Brit]

See also: afraid, 'fraid [non-standard], shocker

Type of: alarm, appal [Brit, Cdn], appall [US], care for, churn up, clash, collect, collide, disgust, dismay, garner, gather, horrify, injure, nauseate, pull together, revolt, sicken, surprise, treat, wound

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