Word Finder - shocked

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To cause to be emotionally shocked, to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.

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The disaster shocked the world.

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To give an electric shock to.

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To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.

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

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to shock rye

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Surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback.

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Suffering from shock.

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Patient is shocked.

I was shocked at how harsh reality can be.

She noticed his shocked expression.

I was shocked when they told me.

She'd shocked them all.

Davis stared at her, too shocked to speak.

Katie wondered if she'd shocked her that badly or if there was some other reason Molly was so surprised.

For a moment she was shocked by his words.

He was probably too shocked to think of that yet, but it would come.

He turned, shocked to see the woman standing behind—and nearly above—him, a smile on her face.

Lana sank to the ground, too shocked to register what to do next.

He stared down at her, obviously shocked by his own violence.

The wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity to the Emperor shocked Rostov.

Shocked, she wasn't able to move.

Jackson read the shocked look on my face.

Martha spat with a viciousness that shocked Dean as much as the officer.

She stared at him, shocked by his bitter tone.

She stared at the fire, shocked by the enormity of what she had done.

She was shocked and frightened as well.

She blinked, shocked when he walked through the man with the green eyes as if he weren't there.

Shocked and horrified, she scrambled to rise from the floor.

She watched in horror as he pulled out a crumpled woman.s body, even more shocked to realize she recognized the woman.s face when Jade set her on the bed.

Sarah mirrored his shocked countenance.

I heard of it in Orel and you cannot imagine how it shocked me.

He withdrew, not looking at the shocked man standing in the kitchen doorway.

The thought shocked him.

Edith at first looked shocked, but almost at once, her face melted to a resigned look—a condemned maiden mounting the guillotine steps, Joan of Arc as the match ignited her pyre.

The do-gooders continued to protest despite reports flooding in from around the country of regular truants being hauled off to school by shocked parents.

Astute in small matters, he had no breadth of view or foresight; his policy was continually warped by his passions or caprices; he flaunted vices of the most sordid kind with a cynical indifference to public opinion, and shocked an age which was far from tenderhearted by his ferocity to vanquished enemies.

The look on Betsy's shocked face was priceless.

He stayed with them and was shocked when the car left the road, bumping into a secluded copse, frightening the girl.

He looked up to see a shocked Donald Ryland step out of his room.

She was shocked and disturbed by his announcement but said little, allowing him to describe the happenings without interruption.

He smiled, enjoying the shocked look on her face when he'd told her he loved her.

She withdrew, and Xander was shocked to feel the hunger gone after so short a drink.

A cynicism so unblushing shocked even the seasoned diplomats of the congress, who would have preferred that the king should have made a decent show of yielding to force.

But, on the whole, the religious sentiment strives to transcend the mythical conceptions of the gods, and is shocked and puzzled by the mythical narratives.

As the ancestors of the Greeks, with the Aryans of India, the Egyptians, and others advanced in civilization, their religious thought was shocked and surprised by myths (originally dating from the period of savagery, and natural in that period) which were preserved down to the time of Pausanias by local priesthoods, or which were stereotyped in the ancient poems of Hesiod and Homer, or in the Brahmanas and Vedas of India, or were retained in the popular religion of Egypt.

The fall of the city resounded throughout Islam, and shocked the Mahommedan princes of Andalusia into gravity and a sense of their position.

I could see her shocked face in the glow from a night light.

He turned, shocked to see the woman standing behind—and nearly above—him, a smile on her face.

She heard very little of any of them but somehow managed to nod when required and even respond with words her shocked mind did not hear or understand.

Nishani had a tongue and habits that shocked all three sisters and did nothing short of aggravate Ne'Rin.

She ducked behind the fountain and saw someone shoving the broken stone door open, shocked to recognize the man leading the charge into the sacred chamber.

Edith at first looked shocked, but almost at once, her face melted to a resigned look—a condemned maiden mounting the guillotine steps, Joan of Arc as the match ignited her pyre.

Once I located him, about as you'd expect—shocked, couldn't believe it, blah, blah, blah.

His senses registered the shocked Guardians that stopped what they were doing to stare at him.

In 1984, Michael Buerk's report on the Ethiopian famine shocked the world into action.

We were all a shocked by the ferocity of the unseasonal deluge and the damage wrought on fields and crops.

In the play she takes the role of narrator, recalling for a shocked 1972 congressional hearing the diabolical experiment.

Jesus wasn't shocked by the immorality of his own day.