shock treatment

Questions about shock treatment

What is another word for shock treatment?

It depends which shock treatment you mean. In the sense “treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions”, the synonyms are shock therapy. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of shock treatment?

WordNet records no antonym for shock treatment. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for shock treatment come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of shock treatment

• Full entry for shock treatmentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for shock treatmentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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