| 单词 | electric shock |
| 释义 | electric shock (once / 7823 pages) n WORD FAMILY electric shock: electric shocks USAGE EXAMPLESThe agency’s guidelines, however, allow for the use of weapons that deliver electric shocks. Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) JRC is the only place in the country that uses painful electric shocks to control violently aggressive and self-injurious behavior. Washington Post(Nov 21, 2016) Three of his friends tried to help, but also got electric shocks. The Guardian(Nov 23, 2016) 1n 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 Hyper harm, hurt, injury, trauma any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. 2n the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks Hyper 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 corporal punishmentthe infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime 3n a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response Syn|Hyper electrical shock, shock inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
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