Synonyms of the word

shock

• n. Sudden, heavy impact.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
• v. To cause to be emotionally shocked.
• v. To give an electric shock.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
• n. An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
• n. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
• n. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass).
• n. (obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
• v. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

agglomerate

• adj. collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
• n. A collection or mass.
• n. (geology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
• n. (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
• v. To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.

alarm

• n. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
• n. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention;…
• n. A sudden attack; disturbance.
• n. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly,…
• n. A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
• n. An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
• v. (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
• v. (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger.
• v. (transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
• v. (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil;…
• v. (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

appal

• v. (Britain, less common) Alternative spelling of appall.

appall

• v. (transitive) To fill with horror; to dismay.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

clash

• n. (onomatopoeia) A loud sound.
• n. (military) A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
• n. (sports) a match; a game between two sides.
• n. An angry argument.
• n. Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
• n. A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
• n. (hurling) An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing…
• v. to make a loud clash.
• v. to come into violent conflict.
• v. (intransitive) to argue angrily.
• v. (intransitive, of clothes) to not look good together.
• v. (intransitive, of events) to coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to…
• v. (intransitive, in games or sports) to face each other in an important game.

collapse

• v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
• v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
• v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
• v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
• n. The act of collapsing.
• n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

collect

• v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
• v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
• v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
• v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
• v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
• v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
• v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
• adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
• adv. With payment due from the recipient.
• n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

collide

• v. To impact directly, especially if violent.
• v. To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

combat

• n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
• v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

cumulation

• n. Accumulation.
• n. The effect of free trade agreements on the rules of origin in calculating importation tariffs, quotas,…

cumulus

• n. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers…
• n. A mound or heap.

cushion

• n. A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling…
• n. Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
• n. (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some…
• n. (obsolete) A riotous dance, formerly common at weddings.
• v. To furnish with cushions.
• v. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
• v. To absorb or deaden the impact of.
• v. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

damper

• n. Something that damps or checks.
• n. (chiefly Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
• adj. comparative form of damp: more damp.

daze

• n. The state of being dazed;.
• n. (mining) A glittering stone.
• v. To stupefy with excess of light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

disgust

• v. To cause an intense dislike for something.
• n. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

dismay

• n. A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling…
• n. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
• v. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and…
• v. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
• v. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

earthquake

• n. A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
• n. (planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial…

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

fighting

• v. present participle of fight.
• adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
• adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
• n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.

floor

• n. The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
• n. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
• n. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
• n. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally…
• n. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
• n. A storey/story of a building.
• n. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
• n. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
• n. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
• n. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
• n. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
• n. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
• n. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
• n. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
• n. (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders…
• n. A dance floor.
• n. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
• v. To cover or furnish with a floor.
• v. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
• v. (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.
• v. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
• v. To amaze or greatly surprise.
• v. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
• v. (mathematics) To set a lower bound.

garner

• n. A granary; a store of grain.
• n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
• v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
• v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
• v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
• v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

heap

• n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
• n. A great number or large quantity of things.
• n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
• n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
• n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
• n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
• v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
• v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
• v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

horrify

• v. To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

impact

• n. The striking of one body against another; collision.
• n. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
• n. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
• n. A significant or strong influence; an effect.
• v. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
• v. (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
• v. (transitive) To collide or strike.

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

mass

• n. (physical) Matter, material.
• n. A large quantity; a sum.
• n. (quantity) Large in number.
• v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
• v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
• adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
• adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
• n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
• n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
• n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
• n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

mound

• n. (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
• n. (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
• n. (obsolete) A helmet.
• n. (obsolete) Might; size.
• n. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark;…
• n. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
• n. (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
• n. A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands,…
• n. (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
• v. (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
• v. (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.

muffler

• n. (US) Part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
• n. A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun.
• n. A type of scarf.

nauseate

• v. (transitive) To cause nausea in.
• v. (transitive) To disgust.
• v. (intransitive) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To be disgusted by (something).

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

outrage

• n. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
• n. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
• n. The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
• n. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
• v. (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To violate; to rape (a female).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.

pile

• n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
• n. A mass formed in layers.
• n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
• n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
• n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• n. (figuratively) A list or league.
• v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
• v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
• v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
• v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
• v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
• n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
• n. The head of an arrow or spear.
• n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
• v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
• n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
• n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
• n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

quake

• n. A trembling or shaking.
• n. An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
• v. (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to tremble or shake.

reflex

• n. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
• n. (linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter…
• n. (obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
• adj. Bent, turned back or reflected.
• adj. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
• adj. (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
• adj. (photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass…
• v. to bend, turn back or reflect.
• v. to respond to a stimulus.

revolt

• v. To rebel, particularly against authority.
• v. To repel greatly.
• v. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
• v. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
• v. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
• n. an act of revolt.

scandalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of scandalize.

scandalize

• v. To shock someone.
• v. To be offensive to someone.
• v. (nautical) To reduce the area and efficiency of a sail by expedient means (e.g. slacking the peak and…

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

seism

• n. A shaking of the Earth's surface; an earthquake or tremor.

sicken

• v. (transitive) To make ill.
• v. (intransitive) To become ill.
• v. (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
• v. (sports) To lower the standing of.
• v. (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
• v. (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
• v. (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

stun

• v. (transitive) To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
• v. (transitive) To shock or surprise.
• v. (snooker, billiards) To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without…
• n. The condition of being stunned.
• n. (Newfoundland) A person who is deemed to be unintelligent.
• n. (billiard, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or…

stupefaction

• n. The state of dismay; shock.

stupor

• n. A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility.
• n. A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses.

surprise

• n. Something not expected.
• n. (attributive) Unexpected.
• n. The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
• n. (obsolete) A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.
• v. (transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo or witness something unexpected.
• v. (intransitive) To cause surprise.
• v. (transitive) To attack unexpectedly.
• v. (transitive) To take unawares.

temblor

• n. (chiefly US) An earthquake.

traumatise

• v. (transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
• v. (transitive, psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.

traumatize

• v. Alternative spelling of traumatise.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.