shock – English noun declension

English noun forms of shock

Noun: shock
Singularshock
Pluralshocks

Sample Sentences

  • The train hit the buffers with a great shock.
  • My mother's news was a shock I still haven't recovered from.
  • Carl had a shock at what he found.
  • A tremendous shock arises when a secret is discovered. [2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 85:]
  • The surprising blast of cold water on my face was a tremendous shock.
  • We gave him a couple shocks, but the patient passed away anywway.
  • 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. [2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 173:]
  • Fans were in shock in the days following the singer's death.
  • The shock she felt kept her in a daze the rest of the day.
  • ". . . Maureen, I don't feel sad. I don't feel anything. What's wrong with me?"
  • "Nothing, Cae," she said. "You just haven't been able to take it in yet. Absorb the shock of it." [2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.5, at p.112]
  • Call an ambulance, he's in shock!
  • Several reflected shocks enter the bomb core in rapid succession, each helping to compress it to its maximum density.
  • If your truck's been riding rough, it might need new shocks.
  • We're bonin' on the dark blocks / Wearin' out the shocks, wettin' up the dashboard clock [1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:]
  • At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos. [1994, Cycle World Magazine, volume 33, number 1, page 49:]
  • The warehouse that caught fire contained 99% trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) – used to make chlorinated tablets to control bacteria and algae – and 99% dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA), which is used to make swimming pool shock – a treatment used to help break down contaminants. [2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:]

Etymology

1. From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
2. Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog. See: Old Norse Nouns 'skykkr', Icelandic Nouns 'skykkjun'.

Verbs referencing "shock"

German Nouns Schaukel, German Nouns Schock, Belarusan Nouns шок, Russian Nouns шок, Ukrainian Nouns шок, Catalan Nouns xoc.