Definitions for shocking
Overview of verb shock
The verb shock has 7 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (4) shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback
(surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted")
2. (3) shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage
(strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends")
3. shock
(strike with horror or terror; "The news of the bombing shocked her")
4. shock
(collide violently)
5. shock
(collect or gather into shocks; "shock grain")
6. shock
(subject to electrical shocks)
7. traumatize, traumatise, shock
(inflict a trauma upon)
Overview of adj shocking
The adj shocking has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) lurid, shocking
(glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident")
2. disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking
(giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time")
