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How to pronounce “shock”
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Pronunciation guide for shock
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of shock with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Lucifer Effect
errors and you're shocking more and more
- Definition summary
- A sudden, heavy impact.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce shock
The Lucifer Effect

errors and you're shocking more and more
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “shock”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
- (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- [Adjective]
- Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
- (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
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