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• v  surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
• v  strike with disgust or revulsion
  The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends
• v  strike with horror or terror
  The news of the bombing shocked her
• v  collide violently
• v  collect or gather into shocks
• v  subject to electrical shocks
• v  inflict a trauma upon
• s  struck with fear, dread, or consternation

• A devout Roman Catholic, he was shocked by the repression of workers' protests in the 1970s and made contact with small opposition groups.
• Abigail: When this came out, we read the articles and we were shocked.
• The headlines around the world were shocked, shocked, in a predictable way, with bad puns from London to New York, and even in neighboring South Korea, China and Taiwan.

• shock
• floor
• ball over
• blow out of the water
• take aback
• offend
• scandalize
• scandalise
• appal
• appall
• outrage
• traumatize
• traumatise
• aghast
• appalled
• dismayed

News & Articles

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• Daughter shocked with Taser by deputies, father calls action excessive
  The father of an autistic girl who a trooper shocked with a taser in Ashland is calling the action excessive.
  June 22, 2013 - FOX 12 Oregon
• Brazil shocked by night of a million protesters
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil awoke Friday to city centers still smoldering after a night that shocked the nation: 1 million anti-government protesters took to the streets in scores of cities, with clusters battling police and destroying swaths of storefronts and government buildings.
  June 21, 2013 - Contra Costa Times
• Shocked to return to S.F. for Pride
  Shocked to return to S.F. for Pride The San Francisco Examiner is presenting the show and allowing her to write an OpEd piece, and she'll be interviewed in the S.F. Weekly, which is a sister publication to the Ex.
  June 19, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle

Quotes

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• Paris Hilton in CNN International
  I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials,Hilton said in the Saturday statement. "I would hope going...
• David Cameron in Irish Times
  Speaking during his first question time in the House of Commons as prime minister, David Cameron said he was "alarmed and shocked" by the shootings. "When lives and communities are suddenly shattered in this way, our thoughts should be with...
• Donovan in Lewiston Sun Journal
  I'm shocked. I'm so proud of our guys. Unbelievable,he said. "Clint made a good run in the middle, the ball fell to me ...... time kind of stopped. You can't miss from there."