shocking

Plural: shockings

Verb

• surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
• strike with disgust or revulsion
• strike with horror or terror
• collide violently
• collect or gather into shocks
• subject to electrical shocks
• inflict a trauma upon
• present participle and gerund of shock

Adjective Satellite

• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
• giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; ; - Thackeray
  • "the most shocking book of its time"

Adj

• Inspiring shock; startling.
• Unusually obscene or lewd.
• Extremely bad.

Noun

• The application of an electric shock.

Examples

• What a shocking calamity!

Synonyms

appal, appall, ball over, blow out of the water, disgraceful, floor, lurid, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, scandalous, shameful, shock, take aback, traumatise, traumatize

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