ELECTRIC SHOCK • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Electric shock

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪlˈɛktrɪk ʃɑk/ Listen

Electric shock

noun

The use of electricity to administer punishment or torture.

Trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness.

A reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body. Synonyms: electrical shock, shock. "Electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks"

See images of 'Electric shock'

Etymology of 'Electric shock'

Share |

"Electric shock" Quotes from Famous Books

... sudden end to the painful scene. Pascal, as if he had received an electric shock, turned and looked at her. A sudden rush of tenderness brought tears to his eyes also, and he left the room to keep ...

— Doctor Pascal • Emile Zola

... effect of an electric shock. The next instant another pile of matches sent up a wavering flare in the gloomy, ...

— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

... electric shock ran through the little group in the corner; and one of the persons forming it came forward. It was Weber, ...

— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc

... circumstances is this agitation begun? Let it be remembered, let us collect the facts from the records on your table, that when I, as a member of this body, but a few days since offered a resolution as the foundation of proceedings on these petitions, gentlemen, as if operated on by an electric shock, sprung from their seats and objected to its introduction. And when you, sir, decided that it was the right of every member to introduce such motion or resolution as he pleased, being responsible to his constituents ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... light little craft flying towards his goal. Perhaps it was this very speed that saved his life. Bullet after bullet pierced the thin canvas sides and one struck a corner of his paddle, tingling his arm and side like an electric shock. A few minutes of this furious paddling brought him to the bow of the dugout. Seizing its rawhide painter, he fastened the end to a seat in his own boat. Then taking the paddle again, he headed back to the point. The leaden ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

More quotes...