verb
- Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off.
- usage: "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
- synonyms: shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback
- Strike with disgust or revulsion.
- usage: "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
- synonyms: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage
- Strike with horror or terror.
- usage: "The news of the bombing shocked her"
- synonyms: shock
- Collide violently.
- synonyms: shock
- Collect or gather into shocks.
- usage: "shock grain"
- synonyms: shock
- Subject to electrical shocks.
- synonyms: shock
- Inflict a trauma upon.
- synonyms: traumatize, traumatise, shock
adjective
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