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shock·ing
(shŏk′ĭng)adj.
1. Highly disturbing emotionally.
2. Highly offensive; indecent or distasteful.
3. Very vivid or intense in tone: shocking pink.
shock′ing·ly adv.
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Adv. | 1. | shockingly - extremely; "teachers were shockingly underpaid" |
2. | shockingly - so as to shock the feelings |
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Translations
بصورةٍ سَيِّئَهجِدا
mizerněstrašně
chokerende
hræîilegahræîilega illa
shockingly
[ˈʃɒkɪŋlɪ] ADV1. (with adj) [bad, expensive] → terriblemente
2. (with verb) [behave] → terriblemente mal, fatal; [age, change] → de manera espantosa
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
shockingly
adv
(= badly) → schrecklich, furchtbar; to behave shockingly (toward(s) somebody) → sich (jdm gegenüber) haarsträubend or miserabel benehmen
(= extremely) → entsetzlich, schrecklich
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
shock1
(ʃok) noun1. a severe emotional disturbance. The news gave us all a shock.
2. (often electric shock) the effect on the body of an electric current. He got a slight shock when he touched the live wire.
3. a sudden blow coming with great force. the shock of an earthquake.
4. a medical condition caused by a severe mental or physical shock. He was suffering from shock after the crash.
verb to give a shock to; to upset or horrify. Everyone was shocked by his death; The amount of violence shown on television shocks me.
ˈshocker noun a very unpleasant person or thing. This headache is a real shocker.
ˈshocking adjective1. causing horror or dismay. shocking news.
2. very bad. a shocking cold.
ˈshockingly adverb1. very. shockingly expensive.
2. very badly. It was shockingly made.
ˈshock-absorber noun a device (in a motor car etc) for reducing the effect of bumps.
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