electrical shock

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymselectric shockshock

   Broaderreflex

Questions about electrical shock

What does electrical shock mean?

electrical shock means "a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body".

What is another word for electrical shock?

Close synonyms include electric shock, shock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electrical shock a common word?

electrical shock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.