SHOCKED


Meaning of SHOCKED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a stunned/shocked silence

There was a stunned silence at the other end of the phone.

a surprised/shocked expression

He didn’t need to speak – his shocked expression said it all.

shaken/shocked/thrilled to the core

When I heard the news, I was shaken to the core.

visibly shaken/shocked/upset etc

She was visibly shaken by the news.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

He looked as shocked as everyone else at his words.

She was pale, but not as shocked as she might have been.

deeply

If a patient is deeply shocked , measurement of peripheral blood pressure may be very low or difficult to record.

His anger had left him and he was merely deeply shocked .

He could not afford to leave money behind, however deeply shocked .

And I was deeply shocked at the unanimous vote that brought it about.

People from Poleglass and Twinbrook, who gathered at the scene of the murder last night, said they were deeply shocked .

But she was astonished, and deeply shocked , that they should have gone off with Guido's speedboat.

He had seen Frank's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening, and had been deeply shocked .

quite

She had been quite shocked when she first saw it.

so

You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear for ever.

Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm.

I was so shocked , it just didn't register.

But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak.

She was so shocked at herself she almost lost the advantage.

Yvonne was so shocked at how widespread the problem was that she has installed a hotline in her gym.

Don't look so shocked , she said.

The victim was so shocked that it was more than a month before she reported the attack.

too

The boy was too shocked and frightened to speak.

White-faced, too shocked for tears, she rose slowly to her feet.

He was still too shocked to take it in.

He was too shocked to talk.

They were too shocked to make any comment at the family home today.

She hoped he would begin to cry instead, but he was too shocked , and lapsed into silence.

They were too shocked to talk ... but the cards said it all.

very

She says she got her grades, she's very shocked !

Yes, she was very shocked .

He said he was all right but appeared very shocked .

She is obviously very shocked , though she is physically well.

MI6 was very shocked at the severity of Blake's 42-year sentence.

He says they were very shocked when Gore announced he was leaving because of illness.

When I got out of the ditch I felt very shocked , and unable to believe that he had missed me.

He was very shocked when he saw his picture in the papers.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

chilled/frozen/shocked etc to the marrow

Soaked to the skin and chilled to the marrow of her bones, she shivered uncontrollably.

The thought made him flush hot with embarrassment even though chilled to the marrow .

Though chilled to the marrow , Karelius was otherwise not in too bad shape.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Shocked viewers jammed the switchboard with complaints.

Everyone seemed really shocked when I told them I'd started smoking.

Gabby was shocked by how unpleasant they were to their mother.

I'm shocked that you've let things get this far.

I am truly shocked by the content of the program.

I was shocked at the change in his appearance.

I was shocked when I saw the size of the telephone bill.

She was shocked at her own depraved behavior.

We were shocked to hear about Brian's heart attack- he's so young.

We were deeply shocked to hear of the baby's death.

When I returned, I was shocked to discover that Rod had lost his job.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But the scale of the poverty revealed by the Booth and Rowntree surveys shocked late Victorian sensibilities.

He was at once shocked and amazed by what he found there.

Isabel trembled, half afraid, half shocked , at such shameless, hitherto unknown longings.

She said that she's shocked that an organisation can behave this way.

The shocked priority of examining herself after escaping, literally, from the jaws of death, wore off.

The few guests that remained stood about in small, shocked groups.

There's no reason you should be shocked at the thought of him taking me out.

Trying to look at O'Neill as if meeting him for the first time, Urquhart was shocked .

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