What is the meaning of shocking?

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

• Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism.
  • usage: "lurid details of the accident"
  • synonyms: lurid
• Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
  • usage: "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"
  • synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful