▪ I. shocked, ppl. a.1
(ʃɒkt)
[f. shock v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Shaken violently.
| 1642 Iacke Puffe 16 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 315 The women did..quake, As did the people, in old æsops time, At the shockt mount, whereforth a Mouse did clime. 1904 Kipling Things & the Man 17 in Times 1 Aug. 7/6 The peace of shocked Foundations flew Before his ribald questionings. |
2. Scandalized, horrified.
| 1840 Queen Victoria Let. 21 Jan. in B. Connell Regina v. Palmerston (1962) i. 20 A letter..which she has kept near three years, she is shocked to say. 1861 Paley æschylus (ed. 2) Agam. 1555 note, He..is with difficulty pacified by the more collected and shocked, if not now repentant Clytemnestra. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. 191 ‘She is making him [the Prince] shake hands with her!’ says Sarah, in a shocked voice. 1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 692/1 Agnes put on a shocked face. |
3. Subjected to mechanical shock, esp. by the passage of a shock wave.
| 1962 E. M. Shoemaker in Z. Kopol Physics & Astron. Moon viii. 317 Part of the kinetic energy of the meteorite engulfed by shock is converted to internal energy in the meteorite, and part is transferred as kinetic and internal energy to the shocked rock ahead of the meteorite. 1973 Nature 27 July 211/2 Hypervelocity impact cratering studies have shown that about ninety-nine volumes of crushed and shocked rock are formed and ejected for each volume of liquid melt (glass) that is formed and ejected. 1976 Ibid. 11 Nov. 114/3 This ionisation front is preceded by a shock front, and after a time there is a shocked layer of neutral gas between these two fronts. |
Hence shockedly (ˈʃɒkɪdlɪ, ˈʃɒktlɪ), adv.; ˈshockedness.
| 1895 Mrs. W. K. Clifford Flash of Summer xxvi, ‘Perhaps you will come into the dining-room, sir’, Elizabeth said, with a little air of shockedness at Mr. Belcher's manner. 1926 Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 531/2 Shockedly. A bad form. 1963 D. Hughes in Sissons & French Age of Austerity 93 Then, rather shockedly, a knight's name figured in court. |
▪ II. shocked, ppl. a.2
(ʃɒkt)
[f. shock v.3 + -ed1.]
Of corn: Heaped in shocks.
| 1839 Clough Early Poems iii. 7 And glimmering grain Standing or shocked through the thick hedge espied. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 22 Aug. 14/2 Fields of shocked or stooked corn. |