noun

• A sudden, heavy impact.
• A sudden, heavy impact.
  "A tremendous shock arises when a secret is discovered."
• A sudden, heavy impact.
  "But as was the case with pacemakers, external defibrillators were unwieldy, and the shocks they delivered—in the rare cases when patients were still conscious—were painful."
• A sudden, heavy impact.
  "Fans were in shock in the days following the singer's death."

verb

• (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
  "The disaster shocked the world."
• (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
• (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
  "Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked."
• (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
  "They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together."

noun

• (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.
  "His head boasted a shock of sandy hair."
• (obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
  "When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)"

verb

• (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
  "to shock rye"