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electric shock
Overview of noun electric-shock
The noun electric shock has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) electric shock -- (the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture; "they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks")
2. 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); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness)
3. electric shock, electrical shock, shock -- (a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body; "subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun electric-shock
3 senses of electric shock
Sense 1
electric shock
=> corporal punishment
=> punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
=> social control
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> torture, torturing
=> persecution
=> maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse
=> mistreatment
=> practice, pattern
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
electric shock
=> injury, hurt, harm, trauma
=> ill health, unhealthiness, health problem
=> pathological state
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
electric shock, electrical shock, shock
=> reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
=> reaction, response
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun electric-shock
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun electric-shock
3 senses of electric shock
Sense 1
electric shock
=> corporal punishment
=> torture, torturing
Sense 2
electric shock
=> injury, hurt, harm, trauma
Sense 3
electric shock, electrical shock, shock
=> reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
Antonyms of noun electric-shock
Member Holonyms of noun electric-shock
Substance Holonyms of noun electric-shock
Part Holonyms of noun electric-shock
Member Meronyms of noun electric-shock
Substance Meronyms of noun electric-shock
Part Meronyms of noun electric-shock
Meronyms of noun electric-shock
Holonyms of noun electric-shock
Attributes of noun electric-shock
Derived Forms of noun electric-shock
Domain of noun electric-shock
Domain Terms of noun electric-shock
Familiarity of noun electric-shock
electric shock used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun electric-shock
3 senses of electric shock
Sense 1
electric shock
> corporal punishment
=> beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking
=> electric shock
=> execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty
=> gauntlet, gantlet
=> kick in the butt
=> stoning, lapidation
> torture, torturing
=> bastinado, falanga
=> boot
=> burning
=> crucifixion, excruciation
=> genital torture
=> judicial torture
=> kia quen
=> kittee
=> nail pulling, nail removal
=> picket, piquet
=> prolonged interrogation
=> rack
=> sensory deprivation
=> sleep deprivation
=> strappado, strapado
=> electric shock
=> dismemberment, taking apart
Sense 2
electric shock
> injury, hurt, harm, trauma
=> birth trauma
=> blast trauma
=> bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage
=> blunt trauma
=> bruise, contusion
=> bump
=> burn
=> dislocation
=> electric shock
=> fracture, break
=> frostbite, cryopathy
=> intravasation
=> penetrating trauma, penetrating injury
=> pinch
=> rupture
=> sting, bite, insect bite
=> strain
=> whiplash, whiplash injury
=> wale, welt, weal, wheal
=> wound, lesion
=> wrench, twist, pull
Sense 3
electric shock, electrical shock, shock
> reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
=> accommodation reflex
=> Babinski, Babinski reflex, Babinski sign
=> belch, belching, burp, burping, eructation
=> blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation
=> blush, flush
=> vomit, vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking
=> defecation reflex, rectal reflex
=> yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy
=> electric shock, electrical shock, shock
=> fart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking wind
=> gulp, gulping
=> knee jerk, knee-jerk reflex, patellar reflex
=> light reflex, pupillary reflex, miosis, myosis
=> mydriasis
=> micturition reflex
=> pharyngeal reflex, gag reflex
=> pilomotor reflex, gooseflesh, goose bump, goosebump, goose pimple, goose skin, horripilation
=> plantar reflex
=> rooting reflex
=> startle, jump, start
=> stretch reflex, myotactic reflex
=> suckling reflex
=> tremble, shiver, shake
=> sneeze, sneezing, sternutation
=> hiccup, hiccough, singultus
Meronyms of noun electric-shock
3 senses of electric shock
Holonyms of noun electric-shock
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