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    1. When he didn’t feel a shock, he tested it again, touching the keyboard for a longer amount of time before quickly pulling his hand back again


    2. He turns off the radio, waits a couple of seconds, turns the radio back on again, listens with a growing look of shock and alarm


    3. John raises one hand, shakes his head in shock and


    4. ‘It must have been a nasty shock all the same


    5. John has stopped writing, is staring at the President in obvious shock


    6. Imagine the shock to the family when he announced his intention to marry a catholic hotel maid! This love dynamic in his life was the catalyst for his search for religious truth


    7. Dave looks at the sky in shock, then at John


    8. ‘Yes … it was a shock when it happened but I sometimes think that it wasn’t such a bad thing


    9. ‘Bloody hell! That must have been a dreadful shock to her


    10. Never underestimate the combination of adrenaline, pain, shock and anger all at the same time

    11. " Glenelle's head was swirling on the verge of going into shock while Ava calmly lead her inside and thru the house


    12. As I said, never underestimate the combination of fear, adrenaline, violence and shock


    13. It was all too much to absorb at once, especially after the shock of waking up clone


    14. Filled with rage, shock, fear, hatred, remorse


    15. ‘Yes, just a bit dizzy … all this is a bit of a shock


    16. He wore black from head to toe, was tanned and lean under a shock of black,


    17. My son was brought from school in a state of shock – his leg was


    18. Betsy froze in shock


    19. " He must have been in shock


    20. Locked down with the shock, bound in chains of fear, I tried to break my bonds by lashing out at phantoms amid irrational bouts of bravado

    21. The expression that flashes across Julia's face portrays shock from my question, but it also reveals she knows exactly what I'm referring to


    22. My head was still swimming with the confusion and the shock of the move


    23. He wore black from head to toe, was tanned and lean under a shock of black, flowing hair, showing the aquiline profile of a true son of the Julian clan, except for the silver bar that pierced the bridge of his nose


    24. ‘So you weren’t even there … that must have come as a terrible shock


    25. I imagine it must have come as a shock to you coming so close to Joris’s death


    26. “Anyway, Catwhiskers stood in shock; it was all I could do to drag


    27. had looked with utter shock and disbelief at his wife


    28. ’ He said, bending to pick up a stick and bashing absently at a shock of nettles growing beside the stone


    29. “We understand, it was a shock to us too” said Catwhiskers


    30. He said that I was in shock because of what I had been thru; that I had imagined all of it

    31. The shock of the flash was


    32. the flash still came as a shock


    33. The entire house vibrated from the shock


    34. You fell ill just after your mother’s ceremony of remembrance … we thought at first it was shock and grief, but it was more than that


    35. The fact surprises me … I haven’t seen anyone else here any of the times I have been here and it comes as a shock to realise that Joris uses it regularly


    36. most unsatisfying shock when they saw Alderfolk Pottypears still


    37. which is a bit of a shock where the land meet the sea!


    38. He picked it up and there was a slight electric shock and his body shook uncontrollably


    39. ‘It was a shock


    40. read with shock and disbelief, the document that launched

    41. SAM: She was in a state of shock and anxiety


    42. The boy feels the shock and awe of jagged metal


    43. He held out his arm to her and as she placed her hand on it he felt an electric shock throughout his body


    44. I ran into the water; shouting, laughing, carefree, splashing forward till the bank sloped away and felled me like a tree into deeper water, happy with the shock of it all


    45. And what a shock! Much colder than I expected but it didn't take long for the spirits to come and charm me away to mythical lands and peoples


    46. Can you imagine the shock treatment all this activity has on the digestive and nervous systems? And because of this fast dying down the body is aware of a hunger for more and more sugar


    47. Honey is absorbed at once without excessive stimulation or shock to the system and it does not result in a craving for more


    48. ' Alexis pointed to the outhouse and held open the door and ushered me inside but just as I crossed the threshold, the most diabolical screech had me petrified with shock and sent Charon himself running screaming back to Hades


    49. The initial shock of the cold rain hitting my skin makes me gasp, but after a moment or two, I realise that it isn’t really that cold


    50. Then a slight electric shock passed between him and Jake, and slowly things stared to fall into place; the mists and cobwebs seemed to clear away and he slowly became aware














































    1. He had to admit it, the native women had shocked him enough that he came to her


    2. Serpent was shocked to receive such an ill-fitting name


    3. A bit shocked, Al Snafu peers with concern at John, trying to remember where they might have met


    4. He maintains he was totally unaware of this and is shocked that his wife of only a few years should have behaved so badly


    5. "I notice it's quite a bit later," Glenelle said, letting her eyes tell her how shocked she was at how much later


    6. Now I was shocked


    7. Rafa looked momentarily shocked and outraged


    8. The other woman were shocked


    9. "I'm shocked it hasn't been melted down


    10. Man in love ---> (Shocked) What? Who are you?

    11. Man in love ---> (Shocked) Oh surprise she was my "beloved


    12. failure of resolution and will, to see such frailty, still shocked him


    13. The Chief shocked him then


    14. When he reopens them, he's shocked to see everything around him has changed


    15. Menachem, too, looked shocked


    16. He wanted to set off several alarms already, but what they said next shocked him even more


    17. "What do you mean 'read me'?" Alan asked the question Alfred had been too shocked to think of


    18. We are shocked, wondering how on earth we could have


    19. The bodyguard was shocked at


    20. To look into the eyes of a God and see the flaws, to witness the failure of resolution and will, to see such frailty, still shocked him

    21. station?” he spluttered out shocked


    22. Alan was shocked by the graphic nature of her expression in addition to being torn by the concept


    23. Daniel was shocked for a moment and then got it… Good God, you made a joke, Daniel laughed and patted him on the neck, I don’t believe it


    24. The Alderfolk was most shocked to see that Cosmicblasto,


    25. But what he saw next shocked the Alderfolk even more


    26. lay battered and shell shocked by the turn of the season,


    27. She was shocked that anyone would hear their dragon so soon


    28. He was shocked by the grim and determined tone of her voice


    29. “Well you sure shocked the hell out of me when you went back


    30. He pulled back kind of shocked as he joined his friends to stare, and before I could press on, I noticed some kids were yelling at me from across the street

    31. The next morning the young man rang a local florist and arranged for a bouquet of the finest mixed winter blooms to be sent round to her house, hoping that she would be shocked, surprised and then intrigued by this wonderful gift


    32. He was shocked and hurt, feeling decidedly violated and dirty and angry


    33. In fact I was shocked because she was so naked and it never occurred to me that underneath those clothes she might be naked but now that I could see, I was almost shocked


    34. Then I was shocked at being shocked


    35. Paresh had the same shocked expression as Ish, when Ali had hit a six off his


    36. moment of passion?' I looked at her innocent -looking face, shocked


    37. Ken, shocked and concerned about the strange way in which his wife had been behaving lately, carried her back up to the bedroom, where he made sure that the curtains were drawn and that the windows were safely closed and locked, taking the key with him to ensure Helen’s safety


    38. shocked getting the toast out of a toaster, then you’ll


    39. shocked both of us


    40. “Minister, it is female!” Gordon also looked shocked

    41. shocked by the grim and determined tone of her voice


    42. Two housekeepers came into the room and were shocked to see the drapes on the floor


    43. round to her house, hoping that she would be shocked, surprised


    44. He was shocked and hurt,


    45. By the time she was ready to call the captain, she was shocked to find out how late it was, duty hours were over already


    46. Ken, shocked and concerned about the strange


    47. I guess I should have, given her intensity, but I was pretty shocked


    48. His body jerked as if shocked with electricity, his muscles contorting into seemingly impossible positions


    49. Filbert was shocked to see the sailor’s face quickly


    50. Sheila was heavy-eyed and heavy of movement - goodness knows what she had been doing with the day; Chrissie gave thought to the concept that the other woman used drugs … she’d seen enough addicts over the years not to be surprised or even shocked at the thought











































    1. You would be surprised how shocking that can be


    2. Sammy sat behind a cheap desk wearing a shocking pin-stripe suit


    3. After that the rest of the damage didn't take too long and nothing was quite as shocking as seeing the Bechstein shattered down the middle by a tattooed gorilla with a baseball bat


    4. rather than absolute shocking blue revelation


    5. Her head was awash with the thrill of shocking the good citizens of


    6. 1963, you’ll recall how shocking and sad it was


    7. took hold of the fence, it was a shocking experience


    8. think that’s shocking ask yourself how another maiden aunt of this


    9. Melodies are betrayed by shocking timing


    10. All that matters now is that he is there, in the storm with her, shielding her as best he can from the driving winds and rain of shocking fortune

    11. Not shocking though, he could


    12. impression that this was not shocking news to Alistair either


    13. In order to bring the point to a speedy decision, they have always recourse to the loudest clamour, and sometimes to the most shocking violence and outrage


    14. This may sound shocking to you, but the


    15. "Something shocking that's yet to be discovered, basically the wind sways the stem too and fro and this builds up a charge in the flower


    16. Of inspiration was depressing; almost shocking: Maybe she could masturbate in front


    17. Amityville Horror this tale isn’t, but it was shocking enough that it lived on in our collective family memory where it remained firmly lodged as a mystery


    18. The rest of the journal, was even more shocking than the realization that I had an angel for a parent


    19. Xonia was murdered this morning,” Zarko replied, not knowing how else to convey the shocking message


    20. He thereby really ticked off the predominant Church authorities of the time in Europe and in general scared the willies out of many of the common folk who got wind of the shocking news

    21. He wasn’t sure if it was the knowing grin the stranger wore or those shocking eyes of his or the feeling that he truly did know who he was and what he was after – and not just the mere location of the two Bretons at present


    22. Zarko paled at the shocking news and he couldn’t believe what he had just heard


    23. She needed to prepare her family gradually for the shocking news


    24. It induced a state of shocking retrieval of her past – memories she’d wished she had buried for good: those selfish, inconsiderate acts


    25. After thousands of years, the shocking beauty of Cupid’s wings never faded


    26. The outburst at this statement would have gone to astronomical proportions had Mars not chosen that moment to begin laughing out loud, shocking the hall to silence


    27. Rogan followed Sebastian’s gaze, his face turning a shocking gray color before he looked at the floor, horrified by the situation and the audience that was there to witness it


    28. Yet – despite the foreboding – what happened next was no less shocking: the child’s face changed colour, to a lifeless grey, metallic grey


    29. Only, what happened seemed all the more shocking


    30. It was not so shocking when Monique had seen her mother, because she’d hardly seen her since her parent's divorce shortly after her nineteenth birthday

    31. With his looks, anything less than a gargantuan ego would have been shocking


    32. But one voice broke through the commotion loud and clear, shocking them all: it was Nutylla Parfinn screaming “Soapy!” as she vaulted off Dorro’s wagon


    33. The battle scene itself was shocking


    34. Such a topsy-turvy state of society was shocking


    35. McKee squinted his eyes at the sudden glare, looking down at a shocking red splash that covered the front of his white corded jumper


    36. “It is certainly shocking that he roughed up an innocent child,” agreed Em


    37. death, or came to the shocking realization that they were part of the myth, and set


    38. Clippings from the national newspaper were shocking for their obvious lack of objectivity and racist slant, leaving would-be tourists with the conviction that only in Limon was there danger, black muggers lurking in alleys waiting to slice their throats


    39. Mike Henderson and recently made the shocking discovery that he was none other than the son of Gordon’s new lady friend – and that complicated matters considerably


    40. General Tyrpledge rolled his eyes in an almost shocking expression of unadulterated lack of esteem

    41. It was shocking to see the Great White Owl


    42. Even during the so-called swinging sixties, it was considered rather shocking for an unmarried couple to live together


    43. AJ tapped my shoulder with a wide mouthed smile and said, “Yo Phil, they ought to call him Shock Socks, cuz he’s shocking the hell out of me with his sewer socks


    44. It's very shocking to me to observe how the same description has, or has not, sense depending on the knowledge applied to their interpretation and how today with the information available and the ease of finding it, anyone could make a more accurate comparison than any done in previous centuries


    45. And, as crazy as it sounds, I was about to allow them to re-enter our lives again, both emotionally and financially, and watch, powerless to change anything really, as the shocking consequences of Adam and Susan‘s insane behaviors dramatically impacted the lives of their children


    46. several shocking story headlines on the homeless situation in Ameri-


    47. The chronological record was so shocking in its point by point portrayal of my nieces and nephews‘ lives that I wanted to throw it away


    48. ‖ That I would be considered a stranger was shocking to me, but what concerned me much more was that his speech was so bad I had a hard time understanding him


    49. It was until after the shocking mess my sister, Michele, got into trying to help the boy that I knew Keith was beyond anything I could do for him, and that his best chance had to be left in the hands of the professionals


    50. One of the most shocking bits of Leftist destruction, I can recall, was the killing of JFK in Dallas










































    1. Five pale-skinned men in worn fatigues, grubby looking men with wild shocks of hair, were shown laying face down on the tarmac at Tunis airport, surrounded by black-clad soldiers in masks holding automatic weapons


    2. Shocks and disgusts wheeze out their chests,


    3. Of all the dreadful shocks experienced that day, nothing compared to the sudden and degrading catastrophe that he had just suffered as he’d bent down to pick up the soap in the prison shower


    4. This is something that always shocks and only makes sense after the


    5. Of all the dreadful shocks experienced that day,


    6. This was done, and the princess in her chamber only felt two little shocks, and she was at home again


    7. The ego cooks up any number of reasons to dish out fear, anxiety, physical pain, sadness, despair, and all of the “thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to


    8. Stimulant chemicals to replace the relaxants; short busts of high intensity electric shocks was normally the final attempt at resuscitation, but they tried as a desperate measure the method of inducing high frequency pulses directly into the limbic region in order to stimulate chemical uptake throughout the entire brain


    9. She is taught mind control lessons while sitting on a chair that allows electric shocks into whatever is sitting on it


    10. Other methods such as electric shocks, beatings and pro-longed sleep deprivation were also used

    11. While I felt wave after wave of shocks, I was thrown to the floor


    12. The farther I got, the less I felt the shocks


    13. It was among the worst nervous shocks I have ever encountered


    14. Obey, obey, it did not matter, happiness was a bitter drug in my mouth, a warm and wonderful ocean in which I floated, buffered a thousand times over from the shocks and horrors of the world


    15. i discovered that the shocks were not working


    16. it had air shocks, and


    17. The recognition came creeping into her heart and sent shocks through her whole body as it became conscious


    18. The impact shocks him, and his gun topples from his hands


    19. From what the doctors told me, I almost died the other night suffering all those shocks to my body at once


    20. One of the biggest shocks to my system was when

    21. I chuckled without humor “You know what shocks me the most is that he hasn’t presented me with divorce papers yet


    22. least the shocks were new


    23. 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives


    24. Our researcher was able to witness how they beat and gave electric shocks to


    25. “I can't believe it another five thousand” I said grinning at Chris but he shocks his head


    26. Then she and Mark were being soundly hugged by his grandparents; the eldest of the similar males who had shocks of white coming in at the temples of his chestnut-brown hair, and a nearly two meter tall woman with thick gray hair who appeared to be in her mid-sixties


    27. The coolness of her voice in his thoughts shocks him to action and he lets her go


    28. 29 Take heed to yourselves that your hearts become not heavy with inordinate desire and drunkenness and the care of the world at any time and that day come on you suddenly for it is as a shock that shocks all the inhabitants that are on the face of the whole Earth


    29. Then she and Mark were being soundly hugged by his grandparents; the eldest of the similar males who had shocks of white coming in at the temples of his chestnut-brown hair, and a six foot, six inch tall woman with thick gray hair who appeared to be in her mid-sixties


    30. volt the col ar shocks them with, and the button triggers it

    31. Walter de la Mare said of him, when he returned from Antwerp, "Ulysses himself at the end of his voyagings was not more quietly accustomed to the shocks of novelty


    32. He wondered if this captain knew that shocks like these could kill a human more easily than a Rotham


    33. When she lifts her dress and shows the audience her tiny, tight, teen-aged twat tied together with titanium twine is when she finally shocks everyone


    34. It was one of those little shocks to the system of which he had many since arriving in Slough


    35. ' The servants that were in the room debated whether to exit or not but they knew more shocks were going to come


    36. This is a tumultuous kind of month with many shocks and surprises (many of them good, but good things can be as stressful, and time consuming, as bad things)


    37. Conan looked to see Amalric's lancers rounding the western ridge, but they did not come, and the pikemen began to reel back under the shocks


    38. Who could he trust and who would try and destroy him? He did not know any of the men he was now about to share a life with and he hated the uncertainty that ran through his body like electric shocks


    39. The events of the last few days, the sudden shocks, the ongoing stress and continuing uncertainty, plus the matter of divided loyalties, were eroding her sanity


    40. A series of internal shocks rocked the ship until it lay still, a dead hulk coasting through space

    41. “It was suggested to use electric shocks


    42. been informed that there will be after shocks throughout today


    43. If you think that this is something, prepare yourself for some more shocks


    44. shocks of my life


    45. “What shocks me about you,” she said, smiling, “is that you always say exactly what you shouldn’t be saying


    46. Opening the top box, she found inside a number of body armor parts carefully sealed in plastic bags and insulated from shocks by plastic foam inserts


    47. We’d endured quite a few shocks and


    48. “She received some electric shocks early on, I was told, but I examined and treated her and she is now fine, miss


    49. There is plenty of growth, but what shocks me most is the general


    50. The movie has a few shocks built into it and one of them shook her so hard her foot shot up and landed a bit too hard in my groin












































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    Synonyms for "shock"

    electric shock electrical shock shock impact cushion shock absorber blow jar jolt jounce seismic disturbance daze stupor traumatise traumatize ball over blow out of the water floor take aback appal appall offend outrage scandalise scandalize disturbance agitation commotion quake convulsion seism collision clash encounter trauma concussion scare startle stun start disturb disgust revolt sicken nauseate horrify strike collide meet

    "shock" definitions

    the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally


    the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat


    a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body


    (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor


    an instance of agitation of the earth's crust


    an unpleasant or disappointing surprise


    a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field


    a bushy thick mass (especially hair)


    a sudden jarring impact


    a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses


    surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off


    strike with disgust or revulsion


    strike with horror or terror


    collide violently


    collect or gather into shocks


    subject to electrical shocks


    inflict a trauma upon