Sekirov Dictionary

shell shock

noun 3
verb 1
forms 5

noun3

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(informal) A person with the condition.
- I passed through the shell-shock wards and a yard where the "shell-shocks" sat about, dumb, or making queer, foolish noises, or staring with a look of animal fear in their eyes. — 1920
(historical) A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle, corresponding largely with the current diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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(figurative) A stunning shock.
- "[…]Think of me / With all these psychic shell shocks — first the war, / Its great emotions, then this Elenor." — 2004

verb1

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(figurative) To stun or debilitate as by a shock.
- It was General du Pont's 'forty-five' which bellowed and thundered and echoed through Fifth avenue, scaring horses and shell shocking pedestrians. — 1919

forms

shell shocked · shell shocking · shell-shocking · shell shocks · shell-shocks

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