Shock vs Abash - What's the difference?

Shock is a related term of abash.

As verbs the difference between shock and abash

is that shock is to cause to be emotionally shocked or shock can be to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook while abash is to make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit .

As a noun shock

is sudden, heavy impact or shock can be an arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.

shock

English

(wikipedia 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

Anagrams

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abash

English

Verb

(es)

To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

"He was a man whom no check could abash ." – .

(obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

Usage notes

* Of abash, confuse, confound: Abash' is a stronger word than '''confuse''', but not so strong as ' confound . ** We are abashed'' when struck either with sudden shame or with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was ''abashed'' by the look of his Master. So a modest youth is ''abashed in the presence of those who are greatly his superiors. ** We are confused'' when, from some unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is often ''confused'' by a severe cross-examination; a timid person is apt to be ''confused in entering a room full of strangers. ** We are confounded'' when our minds are overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually ''confounded at the discovery of his guilt. *::* Satan stood Awhile as mute, confounded what to say. – John Milton

Synonyms

* confuse * confound * disconcert * shame * humiliate * embarrass * See also

Antonyms

* embolden * reassure

Derived terms

* abashed * abashedly * abashedness * abashless * abashment

Anagrams

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