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Quote:It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.[Dave Barry]

Quote:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.[George Washington]

Quote:We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. [Harrison Ford]



Definitions of: shock

Definition: A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.

Definition: A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

Definition: To be occupied with making shocks.

Definition: To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

Definition: To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

Definition: To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.

Definition: A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.

Definition: A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

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