electric shock

Noun
  1. The use of electricity to administer punishment or torture (synset 101166076)
    "they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks"
    is a type of:
    • torture, torturing - the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
    • corporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
  2. Trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning);
    Usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness (synset 114315325)
    is a type of: harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
  3. A reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body (synset 100840953)
    "subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks"
    is a type of: inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex - an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
    same as: electrical shock, shock

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