Clues for the word "SHOCK"
We've had 45 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 48 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on December 03, 2025.
Definition of shock
- n. - A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
- n. - A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
- v. t. - To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
- v. i. - To be occupied with making shocks.
- n. - A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
- n. - A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
- n. - A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
- n. - The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
- v. - To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
- v. - To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
- v. i. - To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
- n. - A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
- n. - A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
- a. - Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
Referring Clues
- Unpleasant surprise
- Really surprise
- Stagger
- Word before radio or wave
- Electrical jolt
- Jarring surprise
- More than surprise
- Surprise
- You might get one from an outlet
- Render speechless
- Untamable mass of hair
- Flabbergast
- Injury symptom
- Big jolt
- Jolt
- Stun
- Culture ___
- Jarring blow
- Stunning surprise
- Floor
- Fork-in-the-socket consequence
- Appall
- [!!!!]
- Astound
- Big surprise
- Herbie Hancock "Future ___"
- Outrage
- See 18
- Hair that will give you a thrill to touch?
- Sort of wave
- Extreme reaction
- Drop of sweet white wine in jar
- Last of Beaujolais wine in jar
- Astonish
- ___ value
- Horrify, stun
- Finger-in-the-socket consequence
- Bowl over
- Trauma
- Something electrifyingly hairy?
- Leave speechless, perhaps
- TASE
- Surprise electricity charge?
- Scandalize
- Hair that will give you a thrill to touch?
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - December 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 31, 2025
- USA Today - March 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 02, 2024
- LA Times - September 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - May 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 14, 2022
- USA Today - August 13, 2022
- Netword - February 05, 2018
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 08, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - November 28, 2017
- Jonesin - October 17, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - June 18, 2017
- New York Times - April 14, 2017
- Netword - March 26, 2017
- New York Times - February 17, 2017
- Universal - February 12, 2017
- Netword - July 10, 2016
- Universal - April 04, 2016
- LA Times - January 10, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - October 05, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 19, 2015
- Guardian Quick - December 19, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 14, 2014
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - February 16, 2014
- Rock n Roll Crossword - February 09, 2014
- LA Times - November 09, 2013
- Universal - September 01, 2013
- I Swear Crossword - September 28, 2012
- And in 18 more crossword puzzles...