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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"

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... this acted like an electric shock. He had not felt seriously alarmed before as to his own fate. He had only been conscious of a deep anger, a mad determination to make Hogan pay. If the Seminole was sinking, and beyond doubt this was the intention of those deserters, ...

— The Case and The Girl • Randall Parrish

... sympathetic, inflexible resistance, like an electric shock, startled and roused the people of all the English colonies ...

— Orations • John Quincy Adams

... had been holding his breath. Gibson in Cummings' apartment! A thrill like a mild electric shock shot up and down ...

— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson

... while the foot has four fingers or claws with, which it clasps fish or small dragons, especially those electric dragons of which you have seen a tame and very much enlarged specimen, and so holds them that they cannot find a chance of delivering their electric shock. But for the Thernee these dragons, winged as they are, would make those lands hardly habitable either for man, or other beasts. All our furs are obtained from those countries, and the creatures from which they are derived are carefully ...

— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg

... and Ashe, thrilling with new emotions, stared at the door which had closed behind her. He felt as though he had been wakened from sleep by a powerful electric shock. ...

— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

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