Electrocute vs. Shock

(transitive) To kill by electric shock.

Example: ‘Her hairdryer fell into the tub while she was bathing, and she was electrocuted.’;

(transitive) To execute by electric shock, often by means of an electric chair.

Example: ‘The executioner threw the switch on Old Sparky, and the condemned prisoner was electrocuted for his crimes.’;

To inflict a severe electric shock (not necessarily fatal) upon.

To execute or put to death by electricity.

kill by electric shock;

Example: ‘She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted’;

kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair;

Example: ‘The serial killer was electrocuted’;

Sudden, heavy impact.

Example: ‘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.

An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.

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)

Example: ‘a head covered with a shock of sandy hair’;

A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

To cause to be emotionally shocked.

Example: ‘The disaster shocked the world.’;

To give an electric shock.

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

Example: ‘to shock rye’;

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.

Example: ‘And cause it on shocks to be by and by set.’; ‘Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks.’;

A lot consisting of sixty pieces; - a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.

Example: ‘These strong, unshaken mounds resist the shocksOf tides and seas tempestuous.’; ‘He stood the shock of a whole host of foes.’;

A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.

A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.

The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

A dog with long hair or shag; - called also shockdog.

A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

To be occupied with making shocks.

Example: ‘Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn,Bind fast, shock apace.’;

To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

Example: ‘Come the three corners of the world in arms,And we shall shock them.’; ‘I shall never forget the force with which he shocked De Vipont.’;

To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

Example: ‘Advise him not to shock a father's will.’;

To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Example: ‘His red shock peruke . . . was laid aside.’;

the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally;

Example: ‘his mother's deathleft him in a daze’; ‘he was numb with shock’;

the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat;

Example: ‘the armies met in the shock of battle’;

a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body;

Example: ‘subjects received a small electric shock when they mae the wrong response’; ‘electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks’;

(pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor;

Example: ‘loss of blood is an important cause of shock’;

an instance of agitation of the earth's crust;

Example: ‘the first shock of the earthquake came shortly after noon while workers were at lunch’;

an unpleasant or disappointing surprise;

Example: ‘it came as a shock to learn that he was injured’;

a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field;

Example: ‘corn is bound in small sheeves and several sheeves are set up together in shocks’; ‘whole fields of wheat in shock’;

a bushy thick mass (especially hair);

Example: ‘he had an unruly shock of black hair’;

a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses;

Example: ‘the old car needed a new set of shocks’;

surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off;

Example: ‘I was floored when I heard that I was promoted’;

strike with disgust or revulsion;

Example: ‘The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends’;

strike with horror or terror;

Example: ‘The news of the bombing shocked her’;

collide violently

collect or gather into shocks;

Example: ‘shock grain’;

subject to electrical shocks

inflict a trauma upon