| NOUN | act | electric shock | the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture |
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| state | electric shock | trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning) | |
| act | electric shock, electrical shock, shock | a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body |
| Meaning | The use of electricity to administer punishment or torture. | |
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| Example | "they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks" | |
| Broader | corporal punishment | The infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime |
| torture, torturing | The deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason | |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Broader | injury, hurt, harm, trauma | Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
| Meaning | A reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body. | |
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| Example | "subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response" | |
| Synonyms | electrical shock, shock | |
| Broader | reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction | An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
| Spanish | choque | |
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