shocks in English

noun
1
a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience.
it was a shock to face such hostile attitudes when I arrived
2
a group of twelve sheaves of grain placed upright and supporting each other to allow the grain to dry and ripen.
This accumulation of the bundles in the field was a big help for the manual labor which is what it took to assemble grain shocks from all those bundles!
verb
1
cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
she was shocked at the state of his injuries

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1. Biphasic shocks are more effective than monophasic shocks and need lesser energy

2. This thing needs new shocks!

3. Method and device for detecting acoustic shocks

4. Adjustment mechanism in cases of asymmetric shocks

5. Type II neurofibromatosis could cause the shocks.

6. Sphincter paralysis plus shocks equals Miller Fisher Syndrome.

7. It would explain the shocks and other symptoms.

8. It shocks you when something like that happens.

9. Bypasses; Smooth Body Shocks; Apparel & Stickers; Popular Brands

10. Could cause numbness, anal sphincter dysfunction, and the shocks.

11. So it was a series of five painful shocks.

12. This risk is mostly associated with adverse supply shocks.

13. The total recorded shocks on that day numbered 26.

14. That's what's been causing the shocks and CNS symptoms.

15. Recent electoral shocks have shaken the European political landscape.

16. 1 Recent electoral shocks have shaken the European political landscape.

17. Is there a better way to respond to adverse shocks?

18. They have little or no capacity to absorb external shocks.

19. Resolution on the adjustment mechanism in cases of asymmetric shocks

20. After forty years in the police force nothing much shocks me.

21. This implies that the negative correlation between inflation and growth simply means that the price level has been countercyclical as aggregate supply shocks domi-nated aggregate demand shocks.

22. Countries have accumulated large reserves in order to insure against shocks.

23. Awoken is a sharp little horror movie with bite and shocks

24. On the other hand, the impact of adverse aggregate demand and supply shocks on the price level are asymmetrical — disasters create inflationary pressures, while economic shocks can be deflationary.

25. 9 Sublethal temperature might be suitable for polyploid inducement of cold shocks.

26. In a nutshell, we find that while the ISM does not respond significantly to shocks to real credit growth, the latter does respond to shocks to the ISM.

27. The public debt situation remains sustainable nonetheless, albeit susceptible to systemic shocks.

28. Today's flexible jobs markets allow oil shocks to be absorbed less harmfully.

29. The present invention also relates to a device for detecting acoustic shocks.

30. Adverse shocks could however halt even these modest gains in poverty reduction.

31. Regulators now suppose that the European banking sector is resilient to adverse shocks.

32. Something that is Appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you

33. Developing countries have continued to accumulate foreign reserves to insure against financial shocks.

34. These adverse external shocks have contributed to create large fiscal and external imbalances.

35. Another blogger published pictures of Kobe right after the first shocks of the earthquake.

36. Hence, financial markets and financial institutions contributed # % to the absorption of idiosyncratic state shocks

37. These policy responses have all been designed to deal with covariate risks and shocks.

38. Many dominant commodities or service sectors are vulnerable to adverse physical or economic shocks.

39. There were two shocks with magnitudes exceeding 5, and they constituted an earthquake doublet.

40. Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes, and passing-strange destinies.

41. Hence financial markets and financial institutions contributed # % to the absorption of idiosyncratic state shocks

42. Population: Thirty-one patients were assigned to the Department of Psychocardiology after multiple shocks.

43. Synonyms for Appals include floors, jolts, shocks, affrights, alarms, amazes, Appals, astounds, awes and consternates

44. Progressing with fiscal consolidation is essential to rebuild a fiscal buffer against future adverse shocks.

45. In other cases, soldiers used electric shocks and acid or tied objects to men’s testicles.

46. No surprise, then, that countries are ambivalent about preparing themselves to insure against financial shocks.

47. Synonyms for Amazes include astonishes, astounds, dumbfounds, flabbergasts, shocks, startles, stuns, stupefies, surprises and bewilders

48. The design allows a highly-effective isolation of shocks and vibration without excessive horizontal deflection.

49. CYCLICAL DEVELOPMENTS In # the capacity of the euro area financial system to absorb shocks improved

50. The magnitude of the slave trade, and its impact on African society, shocks the senses.