Shocked vs. Shook — What's the Difference?

A violent collision, impact, or explosion, or the force or movement resulting from this

Past of shake

Something that suddenly causes emotional distress

Emotionally or physically disturbed; upset

A sudden feeling of distress

Keen on; enthusiastic about

A massive, acute physiological reaction usually to physical trauma, infection, or allergy, characterized by a marked loss of blood pressure, resulting in a diminished blood flow to body tissues and a rapid heart rate.

A set of components ready for assembly into a box or cask.

The sensation and muscular spasm caused by an electric current passing through the body or a body part.

A set of parts for assembling a barrel or packing box.

A sudden economic disturbance, such as a rise in the price of a commodity.

Past tense of shake.

A shock absorber.

A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.

A number of sheaves of grain stacked upright in a field for drying.

The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

A thick heavy mass

To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.

To surprise and disturb greatly

(slang) Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.

To induce a state of physical shock in (an animal or person).

(slang) Emotionally upset or disturbed; scared

To subject (an animal or person) to an electric shock.

A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.

To administer electric current to (a patient) to treat cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmias.

To pack, as staves, in a shook.

To administer electroconvulsive therapy to (a patient).

A disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment

To come into contact violently, as in battle; collide.

To gather (grain) into shocks.

, startled, confused, or taken aback, particularly when also indignant.

(medicine) Suffering from shock.

(physics) Affected, altered, or transformed by one or more shock waves.

Subjected to electric shock.

Simple past tense and past participle of shock

Struck with fear, dread, or consternation