shocking Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
    take aback; shock; ball over; blow out of the water; floor.
    • I was floored when I heard that I was promoted
  2. verb strike with disgust or revulsion
    scandalize; appal; shock; appall; scandalise; outrage; offend.
    • The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends
  3. verb strike with horror or terror
    shock.
    • The news of the bombing shocked her
  4. verb collide violently
    shock.
  5. verb collect or gather into shocks
    shock.
    • shock grain
  6. verb subject to electrical shocks
    shock.
  7. verb inflict a trauma upon
    traumatize; shock; traumatise.
  8. adjective satellite glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
    lurid.
    • lurid details of the accident
  9. adjective satellite giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
    shameful; disgraceful; scandalous.
    • scandalous behavior
    • the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray
    • the most shocking book of its time

WordNet

Shock"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.
    The grossest and most shocking villainies. Secker.
    -- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n. Shock troops, a highly trained or seasoned group within an army used to spearhead a strong offensive action.

Webster 1913