shock Alternative forms
* choque (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).
Noun
( en noun)
Sudden, heavy impact.
- The train hit the buffers with a great shock .
# (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
# Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
# Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
# A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
Derived terms
* bow shock
* culture shock
* economic shock
* electric shock
* shock absorber
* shock jock
* shock mount
* shock rock
* shock site
* shock therapy
* shock wave, shockwave
* shocker
* shocking pink
* shockproof
* shockumentary
* shockvertising
* supply shock
* technology shock
* termination shock
* toxic shock syndrome
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Verb
( en verb)
To cause to be emotionally shocked.
- The disaster shocked the world.
To give an electric shock.
(obsolete) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
* De Quincey
- They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
Etymology 2
Noun
( en noun)
An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
* Tusser
- Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
* Thomson
- Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks .
(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)
- a head covered with a shock of sandy hair
(obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
* 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
- When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock (translating the German Spitz).
Verb
( en verb)
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
- to shock rye
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abandon English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) abandounen, from (etyl) abandoner, formed from . See also (l), (l).
* Displaced (etyl) forleten .
Verb
( en verb)
(obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [ ]
To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [ ]
* Macaulay
- He abandoned himself to his favourite vice.
To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [ ]
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/politics-envy-keenest-rich
, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured.
To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [ ]
* (rfdate) I. Taylor:
- Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned .
- Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
(obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [ ]
* 1594 , , The Taming of the Shrew , act I, scene ii:
- Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
* Udall
- that he might abandon them from him
To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [ ]
To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.
Synonyms
(synonyms of "abandon")
* abdicate
* blin
* cede
* desert
* forego
* forlet
* forsake
* give up
* leave
* quit
* relinquish
* renounce
* resign
* retire
* surrender
* withdraw from
* withsake
* yield
Derived terms
(terms derived from "abandon")
* aband
* abandoned
* abandonee
* abandoner
* abandonware
Related terms
* abandonment
* abandonware
Etymology 2
* From (etyl), from (etyl) abandon, from abondonner.
Noun
( en noun)
A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. .
* 1954 , , Messiah :
- I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon : 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
* 2007 , Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, :
- They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
(obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
Synonyms
* (giving up to impulses) wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint
Adverb
( en adverb)
(obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
* 1330 , Arthour and Merlin :
- His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver abandoun .
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