Translation
to shock, to scandalise
Word origin
An international borrowing of French choc and English shock, both from Old French choquer, to strike against. The Esperanto spelling ŝ keeps the sound the French spelling ch was hiding.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- choquer
- English cognates
- shock
Examples
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The news shocked the whole village.
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His words shocked me.
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Do not shock the guests with a joke like that.
is about the mind, not the body. It is the shock of scandal and
outrage, so a rumour, a photograph or a rude remark can somebody,
and the person left reeling is . An electric shock is elektra ŝoko and needs the noun plus the adjective to be understood as such; the
bare verb will not carry that reading on its own.
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