shocked

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English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ʃɒkt/
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  • Hyphenation: shocked
  • Rhymes: -ɒkt

Adjective

shocked (comparative more shocked, superlative most shocked)

  1. Surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback, particularly when also indignant.
  2. (medicine) Suffering from shock.
    The patient is shocked.
  3. (physics) Affected, altered, or transformed by one or more shock waves.
    shocked quartz
  4. Subjected to electric shock.
    • 1931, Popular Science, volume 119, number 3, page 26:
      Dr. Kurt Urban, most shocked man in the world, on roof of Mt. Generoso lightningproof cabin.

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Verb

shocked

  1. simple past and past participle of shock
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