Inspiring shock; startling. / Unusually obscene or lewd. / (colloquial) Extremely bad.

The application of an electric shock.

present participle of shock

plural of shocking

simple past tense and past participle of shock

Surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback, particularly when also indignant. / (medicine) Suffering from shock. / (physics) Affected, altered, or transformed by one or more shock waves.

(figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning. / A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.

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

Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.

An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook. / (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.